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Litigation

Nov. 3, 2011

Civil-Gideon legislation floated in San Francisco

Leaders in the San Francisco legal community are pushing for legislation that would provide free lawyers to indigent litigants in certain civil cases.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - For Kelly M. Dermody, it's a horrible inequity: someone arrested for shoplifting automatically gets a lawyer while someone at risk of losing his or her child does not.


Hoping to make the system more evenhanded, Dermody, the incoming Bar Association of San Francisco president, and other leaders in the local legal community have teamed up with Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim to ...

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