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Katrina

Disaster’s Disciples

Posted Aug 1, 2008, 08:00 am CDT
By Arin Greenwood

Before he knew it, he found himself relocated and on the cutting edge of a new legal field.

“We went through the environmental law book but talked every week about Katrina,” say Verchick, who, along with his class, had been moved to Hous­ton. “There was a lot to talk about.”

Their talk touched upon the numerous and varied post-Katrina legal issues that had affected all of their lives but that none of them had thought to connect: insurance, public benefits, civil rights, domestic re­lations, probate, indigence. But the more Verchick and his class talked, the more he realized they had inadvertently put themselves on the leading edge of the burgeoning area of disaster law.

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