30 Years of Free Legal Help

Despite the popular jokes that equate lawyers with greed, in any given year, about a third of New Hampshire’s lawyers offer free legal services to the poor. They help with housing disputes, wills, workplace injuries and other civil matters. The program that links volunteer lawyers with people in need was set up about 30 years ago by a lawyer named Mike Hall.

Recently, the state bar association recognized Hall’s long standing efforts to make free legal assistance more available.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg has more.