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Public Interest

Apr. 22, 2006

Civil Litigants Not Fluent in English Fare Poorly

SANTA ANA - The middle-aged woman needed to escape her gambling, jail-bird husband, but she spoke only Vietnamese, and the paralegal who had been helping her file for divorce had died.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
 Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SANTA ANA - The middle-aged woman needed to escape her gambling, jail-bird husband, but she spoke only Vietnamese, and the paralegal who had been helping her file for divorce had died.
      She came to Public Law Center's Hien Vo. Although Vo is a staff lawyer at the Santa Ana public-interest law firm, she agreed to be t...

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