Serving Clients with Limited English Proficiency: Resources and Responses

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A year ago the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) convened, from both LSC-funded and other legal aid programs, a group of poverty lawyers, all of whom had worked with immigrant clients, to discuss how programs might improve their services to clients with limited English proficiency. The group developed protocols and recommendations incorporated into a draft program letter posted on the Legal Resource Initiative page of LSC's www.lri.lsc.gov.

By Patricia Hanrahan From September - October 2004