On Legal Services for the Poor

Forty-five years ago, I spent my very first summer as a Harvard law student working at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic in Chicago handling various housing and consumer civil legal aid matters for low-income persons. In my early years as an associate at the Chicago office of the Sidley Austin law firm, where I have been fortunate to practice my entire career, I volunteered once a month at a civil legal aid clinic on the near Northwest Side of Chicago helping to handle whatever came through the door.