Law Suits Program Helps the Unemployed Dress for Success

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 05 No. 2016 Pg. 04
• Pages: 04
• Publication year: 2016

Law Suits program helps the unemployed dress for success No. 2016 #04 California Bar Journal May, 2016

Amy Yarbrough, Staff Writer.

It began with a simple request in 1996: Norman Rodich's now-wife Susan needed clothing for a donation drive a coworker organized to help people down on their luck get back into the workforce.

Rodich pulled a suit, shirt, tie and shoes from his closet, a small effort that turned out to have a big impact on the ultimate recipient.

"I later heard that... the suit fit him reasonably well, and he went to the interview and got the job," said Rodich, a partner at Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener, Wilhelm & Waldron in Irvine. "It got me thinking, 'This is a very easy thing to do.'"

Wanting to build on the idea, he approached Working Wardrobes for a New Start, an Orange County nonprofit that initially focused on helping female survivors of domestic violence. The State Bar Litigation Section's "Law Suits" program was born. The group collected...