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Memphis Area Legal Services Director Testifies To House On Funding Crisis
 Testifying before a Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday, the director of Memphis Area Legal Services said his 20-attorney staff has had to turn down 65 percent of poor people seeking help because of a lack of resources.
Harrison D. McIver III told the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law that Congress must provide a "substantial increase in funding" to meet the needs of clients struggling in a bad recession.
The executive director of the four-county office for 11 years, McIver said the Shelby, Fayette, Lauderdale and Tipton county region suffers with 13.3 percent unemployment and an exploding case load that may reach 10,545 by the end of this year. In 2006, by contrast, the office handled 6,631 cases.
The Commercial Appeal Online,
October 27, 2009, Article by Bartholomew Sullivan
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