The Morning Interview

Sitka Bar Ass’n offers MLK Day legal advice

by KCAW News
January 16, 2012 4:34 pm


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Christine Pate and Teka Lemade discuss their plans to offer a free legal clinic in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

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