Posted on 01/11/2006 5:23:20 PM PST by NJRighty
Jobs in human-rights litigation in the U.S. aren't plentiful, and anyone seeing Tina Monshipour Foster in 2004 might have said she was a long shot to get one - or take one.
She was a fourth-year associate in the midtown Manhattan office of Clifford Chance LLP, one of the world's largest law firms, with annual pay of more than $200,000. She had a secretary, word processing staff and a car and driver at her disposal when she worked late. At night, she went home to a loft apartment overlooking the East River.
But at age 29, Ms. Foster gave it up to become one of three attorneys working at the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of prisoners at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She earns less than $70,000 annually and works out of offices in an older building in the Soho area of New York City. Studded with gum, the rug in her office is "disgusting," she says.
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Her position as counsel for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative has her coordinating more than 400 individual cases and a "John Doe" case on behalf of unnamed prisoners, most of which are being handled pro bono by law firms nationwide. The prisoners, who have been held without being charged since after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, are challenging their detention.
"There are almost no human-rights litigation jobs," says Mr. Ratner. "And the important issues now are the post 9/11 detention and torture issues, so this is possibly the best job you can get in America."
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200'000 may sound like a lot but it don't go to far in Manhatten.
It is nice when leftist have a hard time finding some rabble to rouse.
They are still in need of a blind female dwarf and a one armed male albino. After that, it should be a smooth cruise into bliss.
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