LIKE CLOCKWORK, teams of young lawyers from two of Manhattan’s most prosperous firms spend a certain few days each month in a nondescript loft building on West 24th Street. There at the offices of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, they see clients of their own age, or younger – clients who have run out of money, and who are running out of time.
“Sometimes they cry,” said Ilise S. Alba of her pro bono clients at GMHC, men and women who need to make wills, or assign guardianships or health care proxies or powers of attorney. “It can make us cry, too.”
