Hats off to Chief Justice Chase Rogers, United Technologies and General Electric for creating Legal Corps of Connecticut. Based on the Teach for America model, Legal Corps of America sounds like a win from every perspective.
The idea of Legal Corps of Connecticut is that major corporations will provide funding for recent law school graduates to work in legal aid agencies for three years. The legal aid firms will provide administrative support, training, office space and malpractice insurance. The corporations will provide compensation. This appears to be an excellent idea for everyone involved, including the many indigent clients gaining representation that might otherwise have been unavailable.
