(Many of the indigent already qualify for free representation).
When he won free representation, he marched on toward trial.
"Is she entitled to free representation?" he asked.
The Free Representation Unit have a great scheme for mobilising law students to carry out advocacy work.
The unemployment Action Center, a non-profit group run by law students that also provides free representation to people denied benefits, claims a 60percentt success rate.
His mother is a former communications officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is on the board of the New York Legal Assistance Group, which provides free representation to the needy.
The London-based Death Penalty Project (DPP) provides free representation to those facing the death penalty in countries that still use the JCPC as their final appeal court.
Free representation tends to be provided by lawyers at nonprofit advocacy groups that are ill equipped to keep up with demand.
Mr. Leichter, who provides free representation through the Workers Defense League, a nonprofit organization that is financed in part by labor unions, says he wins about two-thirds of his cases.
With no access to free representation – and unable to pay for it – people dealing with disabilities, chronic illness, and mental health problems have to go up against the DWP alone.
