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by sandworm101 3648 days ago
That's not a legal clinic. That's a law firm or, i suspect, a referral service (a clearing house) that farms cases out to cutthroats. Legal clinics don't take fees. Clients don't pay and cash settlements almost never happen. Clinics are generally staffed by law students. Complain away. Every local bar promotes clinics as a means of serving indigent communities. None would consider the assertion of a client's right to a jury trial as any sort of wrongdoing.

http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/clinical/clinics/housing-law-cli...

"The bulk of the clinic’s work consists of litigation in the Boston Housing Court, defending evictions and prosecuting affirmative cases to improve housing conditions and to prevent utilities from being shut off."

And in california:

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/AboutUs/CenteronAccesstoJustice.asp...

http://one-justice.org/