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[quote=Anonymous]I worked for Legal Services in NY doing landlord tenant and foreclosure matters.  Hours were pretty good and you had a lot of flexibility regarding which cases you took on and how far you wanted to push them.  Honestly, a lot of the cases were losing cases where you tried to negotiate a payment plan with the landlord.  I mean, it's hard to argue why someone shouldn't have to pay their rent absent serious warranty of habitability issues.  That said, things happen and sometimes people just need some time to get their affairs in order.  So, getting back to the hours...you could give advice and counsel on some of those cases and not have to go to court if you didn't have the time.  You'll have to do this because you can't be in two places at once.

The people I worked with were generally nice.  Upper level management made decisions that others that had been around longer than me questioned.

The clients surprised me as I had previously interned at a legal services place in VA.  For example, most of my clients up there had nicer cell phones than I did whereas the people I helped in VA were truly impoverished.  Most of the clients are nice and just generally needed some help.  There's a few that are totally crazy but you have to expect that working in legal services.

I think the subject matter covered at legal services is generally the same but varies slightly based upon grants.  For example, we had an elder law attorney and someone that handled divorces but only in cases of domestic violence.  We also had someone that handled social security disability cases although that person might have been a paralegal.  There's some weird rule that allows paralegals to handle those cases.

Happy to answer any more specific questions you have.[/quote]

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