As poverty rises, legal assistance dwindles for N.J.'s poor

... he added, "and 99 percent of those people don't have lawyers." Established law firms such as McCarter & English in Newark and Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland each devote around 20,000 billable hours to pro bono cases every year, but they say they ...

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