$11,000 given law student
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The Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship of $11,000 has been awarded Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Kansas City third year law student.
search assistant for the Wyandotte County Legal Aid Society.
The fellowship program is part of a nation-wide talent search to find 50 of the country's most promising young lawyers to work on the "war on poverty."
Law. Meeks will be trained in the area of poverty law prior to a year of field work in the Legal Services Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
NAMED IN HONOR of the "father of legal aid in the United States," the late Reginald Heber Smith, the fellowships will make possible the evolution of a fully developed curriculum of poverty law that can be adopted by law schools across the country.
This summer, in an intensive five-week curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Meckes, law school senior class president and Assistant Resident Director of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, worked last summer for the federal government as a legal represents
Meeks said, "The poor need legal counsel as much as the rich, and I hope I can close the gap between the difference in the availability of lawyers to these two opposite forces in society."
Daily Kansan Friday, March 24, 1967
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