They've tried hiring freezes, layoffs,
limiting office hours and plundering their reserve accounts, but it
hasn't been enough. In the midst of an unusually harsh recession,
nonprofit legal services groups are caught between the most severe
funding shortage anyone can recall and an unprecedented demand for
legal help from the poor. There simply isn't enough money, and too
many people need help. So they're trying something new. A number of
things, actually.