Attempts to reach Lopez and his attorney, Beth Unger from the Legal Aid Society, were unsuccessful.

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The women were represented by The Legal Aid Society and Weil, Gotshal and Manges, a New York law firm.

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She later volunteered at The Legal Aid Society for four years.

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"There are so many ways the city of New York could find housing for these people, " said Judith Goldiner, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society.

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After earning a law degree at Fordham University, he headed for a Wall Street law firm but ditched it for the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, representing tenants threatened with eviction.

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The society said the Scottish Legal Aid Board is the "obvious body" for collecting such money.

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The society said the Scottish Legal Aid Board is the "obvious body" for collecting the money.

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"This law could lead to a military society, " says Bambang Wijoyanto, chairman of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation.

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But he insisted that even if the threshold at which people have to pay is increased, as the Law Society had called for, money would have to come out the legal aid budget elsewhere.

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