News Release
March 2001
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – Attorney Frederick P.
Rooney will present "The Growing Crises in Access to Justice in
the US," on March 12, at 7:00 p.m., in Prosser Auditorium at Moravian
College. Rooney will discuss the limitations on access to justice in
the United States.
Statistics show that each year, fewer and fewer Americans
can defend their legal rights because they cannot afford the cost of
legal representation. Federal and state funding cutbacks have decimated
legal service programs for the poor. Rooney will discuss alternatives
to the rising cost of legal representation.
Rooney is a partner in the law firm of Rooney, Mannicci
and Gardner in Bethlehem, and also serves as solicitor for the Council
of Spanish-Speaking Organizations of the Lehigh Valley, the Children’s
Rights of Pennsylvania program, as well as for the Bethlehem Tourism
Authority. He has been teaching at City University of New York School
of Law since 1998, and is the Director of the Community Legal Resource
Network of CUNY School of Law.
Rooney graduated with a B.A. degree in Latin American
Studies from Moravian College In 1975, He receivee an M.A. degree in
Bicultural/Bilingual Studies at Marywood College, Scranton, PA, and
then earned his Juris Doctorate from City University of New York Law
School at Queens College, Flushing, New York, in 1986.
