We've gone continuously backward while the need has gone continuously forward. There's about 225,000 people who qualify for our help and our services and we have about 16 or 17 attorneys, depending on the day.
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We hope that the ideas that come out of these meetings in each congressional district will, one, raise awareness of the problem and, number two, will give us some feedback which we can then go to the Arkansas Bar Association and go to the legislature in 2007, go to the Supreme Court and show what the needs are and how the public perceives the needs and try to get some additional funding. Our funding has continuously fallen since 2002.Lee Richardson
The odds are stacked against the poor people who can't afford to pay an attorney in a civil case.
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