Some of the largest class-action firms in the country have confided to me that rarely are the referral fees and related conflicts of interest involving fund counsel disclosed to the boards.
Now there are good reasons for skepticism about this explanation, and surely the funds' counsel never so advised them, but as the football case and the Lehman lore show, real differences lurk beneath the surface.
But still unable to access funded counselling, Sarah had to cut the unaffordable session short and go back to just medication.
The case determined that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
Survivors UK, which has received £70,000 a year from the Ministry of Justice for the past four years to fund its counselling services, is now being placed under significant pressure at a time when tackling rape, sexual violence and child sexual abuse has become a key focus for the police and the government following the revelations of Jimmy Savile's years of abuse.
"Especially after the supreme court's recent King v Burwell decision allowed the government to expand its healthcare exchanges, there is no reason at all the government needs religious employers to help it distribute these products," Becket Fund legal counsel Adèle Auxier Keim said in a statement.
The human element is still crucial, though, so it's recruited a lean team of domain experts such as Thiel Macro's financial modeling whiz Eric Woersching, ex-Founders Fund general counsel Alda Leu Dennis for legal, and former TechCrunch reporter Kim-Mai Cutler for press strategy.
Pilot programs initiated in California in 2011 imposed a small fee on post-judgment motions to fund civil counsel in several superior courts.
On the state level in California, lawmakers proposed a bill to fund legal counsel for children and teenagers, and Attorney General Kamala Harris similarly asked law firms to help.
Executive Summary Catholic School Development Foundation (CSDF) will be a not-for-profit operating foundation whose exclusive purpose is to provide development and fund raising counsel to Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
