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Sat 11 Nov 2002Solicitors' unpaid work for the poor stressedThe recent case of exploited Brazilian workers would never have come to court without the work of a solicitor prepared to do it without any real prospect of pay, according to the new President of the Law Society. Ms Geraldine Clarke said she would be working during her year's term of office to correct the impression that members of the profession put their own interests first."I will make it a priority during my year in office to try to redress the balance and to highlight the viluable contribution that solicitors make to society," she said.