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More than 80 percent of low-income Virginians needing legal help are not getting the services they need, according to an attorney survey released last May by the Virginia State Bar.
Culpeper’s two representatives on the state bar’s pro bono Steering Committee, John J. Davies, III and Jere M. H. Willis, III, met on June 19 with Sarah Jane Jones, the Virginia State Bar pro bono coordinator, and Elizabeth van Wambeck, pro bono coordinator for Rappahannock Legal Services, to determine how the private bar can help improve delivery of legal services to indigent residents of Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock and Fauquier counties.
In 1990, the Culpeper office of Rappahannock Legal Services handled over 1,200 civil cases for clients whose incomes were at or below 125 percent of the federally defined poverty line — $15,875 annually for a four-person household. Their legal problems ranged from difficulties with child support collection and domestic violence, to substandard housing and homelessness, to job and consumer disputes, to access to
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