LEGAL ASSISTANCE: Rhode Island Legal Services staff attorney Brian Furgal, Roger Williams University School of Law student Nicole Palmer, center, and RWU faculty member Eliza Vorengerg operate the Eviction Help Desk outside Sixth District Court at the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO
Most of Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s peers at Harvard Law School weren’t interested in eviction defense work. The pay was low. Elorza, who worked in legal aid after graduating law school and later became a housing court judge, made $30,000 a year at his first job. And jobs were scarce, due in part to…
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