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Special Report - Law - September 13, 2012
Moderate Means provides affordable counsel
Young statewide system links attorneys, people with moderate income

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Moderate Means staff attorney Catherine Brown says 85 law students statewide are involved in the nonprofit legal assistance program.
Moderate Means staff attorney Catherine Brown says 85 law students statewide are involved in the nonprofit legal assistance program.
—Staff photo by Treva Lind
A legal-assistance program with ties to Gonzaga University's law school has started filling a previously unmet statewide need to provide affordable representation to moderate-income households, says an attorney based at the school.

Called Moderate Means, the program helps people who make too much money to be eligible for low income-based legal aid programs for civil cases, yet can't afford to hire an attorney.

The Washington State Bar Association along with the law sc...


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