One Case at a Time

Law students help New Orleans rebuild its devastated legal system

As Angela A. Novy walked past barbed-wire fences, through a metal detector, and into the Orleans Parish Prison last month, she saw the chest-high flood lines on the walls of the building where she would interview her first client.

A third-year student at the University of Baltimore School of Law, Ms. Novy had read enough case law to know that people charged with misdemeanor offenses usually spend little, if any,

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