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Public Interest

Dec. 31, 2013

Bay Area Legal Aid's longtime leader is stepping down

Ramon Arias, who is leaving the legal aid group next month after 13 years in charge, embraces management and business even as he acknowledges they have a pejorative connotation in the legal aid community.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Management. Business. Politics. Those are words and concepts Ramon Arias wholeheartedly embraces, even as he acknowledges they have a pejorative connotation in the legal aid community.


"We have to get money from somewhere and we have to pay people. It's a business," said Arias, who has worked in legal services for 35 years, the last 13 at the helm of Bay Area Legal Aid. ...

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