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The Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis, an international law firm with 200 attorneys in the District, is pairing with the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and Friendship Baptist Church to offer free legal services from the chur

The Honorable Eric H.

Jennifer, a 30-year-old attorney and Equal Justice Works Americorps Legal Fellow at the Legal Aid Society, specializes in navigating this frustrating system for Washington, D.C.

Barbara McDowell, 56, a lawyer who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and who later became a national leader in public interest advocacy as director of the appellate project of the DC Legal Aid, died Jan.

The D.C. Legal Aid Society has set up shop in Anacostia one day a week as part of a widening effort to bring legal services closer to the city's poorest communities.

More than 1,100 associates have helped the Legal Aid Society for the District of Columbia exceed its goal of $155,000 by nearly $20,000.

Allan Fisher, 96, a founder and former director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, died of respiratory failure Sept. 15 at Blumenthal Jewish Home in Clemmons, N.C. Mr.

Howard C. Westwood, a lawyer with the Washington firm of Covington & Burling and a specialist in airline law, died at his home in Washington. He was 84. Mr. Westwood joined Covington & Burling in 1934.

Ernest Schein, president of the Legal Aid Society of DC, passed away at the age of 67. During his time as president, he directed representation of over 10,000 people a year who could not afford to hire a lawyer.