With a median starting public interest
salary in civil legal aid in the mid $ 40,000 s and only somewhat higher for public defenders and prosecutors, these mortgage - size debts bar many graduates from pursuing public service legal jobs.
Not exact matches
• Create 15 new staffed
civil legal aid attorneys; • Increase the capacity of pro bono programs across the state; • Invest
in research and training for
legal aid and pro bono attorneys; and, • Provide Northwest Justice Project attorneys with long overdue cost of living and
salary adjustments.
The program will pay the
salaries and benefits of young attorneys dubbed «fellows» who will work with the
legal aid groups to represent several hundred clients a year
in civil and family courts.»