It also sought a $10 million bond from the public-interest lawyers and student assistants who represented the terrified refugees.

And a group of public-interest lawyers have dedicated themselves to representing these people for nothing.

Would she work on the outside as a public-interest lawyer (children's rights, animal rights, mineral rights)?

Two public-interest lawyers called that law into question on Tuesday, saying Mr. Corzine was obligated to hold a special election.

The jockeying frightens longtime social-service workers and public-interest lawyers.

In the show, Mark's former girlfriend Maureen, a performance artist, has left him for a public-interest lawyer, Joanne, a large-and-in-charge black woman.

And he can do public-interest lawyers with Jewish last names.

Three years ago, I left what many would consider a "fun, glamorous" job as a public-interest lawyer to work full time at rearing my son.

But because Ms. Falk and her husband, who is a hard-working public-interest lawyer, respect each other's work, they make room for it.

"I realized with a shock that the work had really disintegrated and we had lost a whole generation of public-interest lawyers," she said.