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5 ' (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 2 8 _ . | Asked if LCDC would -hire | Sobol said that for more than Chains Ri hts . |eompetent Louisiana lawyers: years before coming to aan’ [Pepresent clients in civil rights {Louisiana he was associated w* \eases, Sobol replied the organk jwith a Washington, D. C., law pikion would certainly do m3 jfirm and had been a volunteer one’. were willing to take fee jattorney for thé LCDC during cake: oo so = | August 1965. He said he re- . - con, Previous testimony had beerl |turned to Louisiana in August ’ . 1: "lheard that white lawyers in the | 1966. y LTSEGETS Sesjstate wit, not generally tate| “While working for the Washr ’- gl pach cases and that many Negfd | ington firm of Arnold and Por- afattorneys are not acceptable d6@ iter he said he had a $24,000-a- ‘jto inadequate training. “e lyear salary. When he joined 4 ~| (Cases Blocked The presence of out-of-state attorneys has helped preve ‘prosecution of civil rights work: jers in Louisiana, a Washingtoa, ID. C. lawyer tesigjed today.’ a Be. : _ Be: he made $2,900 a year. *$OBOL, UNDER questio His salary has been raised to today, said the inferior educa- ($15,000 since he became-chie we of Negro attorneys, particu counsel sel, he said. _ Richard B. ‘Sobol, a civa {iar in the South, is recognuer | Richard 2. _Sobel the stand and that he has been requested ‘ o t Slama iby the Education Test Services, itoday in his. federal district: which has headquarters in ‘court suit to enjoin Plaquemines’ princeton, N. J., to conduct Parish authorities ftom prose- . workshops for Negro law stu- . jeuting him for practicing law |ldents in the state. ;without a license. - rue told the court yesterday ot . at Judge Eugene Leon of HE WAS questioned by Cicero || piaquemines Parish did not ob- Sessions, attorney for the Loui- |i ject to his practice before him siana Bar Association, which jiuntit Gary Duncan, .Negro, has intervened on behalf of the | whom he was defending at the defense. Sbol said “those per-Iitime of his arrest in. 1967, was sons who might prosecute @¥sentenced. Duncan was charged civil rights Toe oe ee hose and later convicted of battery y..to do so , in a - individuals will have adequate in a school desegregation alter representation.” te mo Se Sobol said under questioning] THE CIVIL RIGHTS attor- . he sent telegrams to television Iney said that the firm of Col- 'stations asking equal time tofjins Douglas and Elie of New answer Gov. John J. McKei-forleans accepted the case with then’s criticism of civil rights |! some “trepidation” after he had marchers in Bogalusa last-year. {consulted with a partner of the eel . firm. 7 SESSIONS ALSO delved-into|| Sobol said he was arrested the matter of the funding of |/Feb. 21, 1967, in the Plaque- © Lawyers Constitutional Defense |/mines Parish courthouse after , Committee, which has sentlaw- jihe had conferred with Judge yers into the South since’ 1964. |{Leon about an appeal bond to Sobol said he knew of foun- jjthe U.S. Supreme Court for ~ dations, including the Ford and |Duncan. - me . the. Field foundations, which | Sidney W. Provensal, attorney had contributed but that he had {for Leander H. Perez dr., no access to lists of all donors. {Plaquemines Parish district at-— Alvin J. Bronstein, Sobol’s at- |torney, and Judge Leon cross- torney, objected to the question jexamined Sobol in an attempt - being pursued into the list of \to show he has had littie expe- individual donors because if | rience in trying criminal cases. Louisiana contributors appear. | : ed there might be reprisal! EARLIER SOBOL explained 7 7 ~ hw egainst them in the state. bn background under _question- ena | 8 ing by his attorney, Alvin Bron- NOT BUCORDED THROUGH AGREEMENT oftstef oe 4 Ithe attorneys for both sides and 16/ FEB 16 1968 the judges 2, individual names H were not requested. ‘ \ Hy —_— od a7 (Indicate page, name of oe newspaper, city and atate.) PAGE 39 STATES-ITEM NEW ORLEANS, LA. easton: FINAL Author: eaitorGEORGE W.5HEALY Title: RICHARD SOBOL Daren enmiiaanantmneeeend Character: CR or Clasaification: 4he Submitting Office: N Ae) o9 LA e ([] Being Investigated 4