Two lawyers work to get juvenile offenders back in school

By Jason Laughlin, The Philadelphia Inquirer | April 16, 2015

Elana Baurer is a bulldog, eager for a just fight, former professors say.

Maheen Kaleem is more reserved. The child of Pakistani immigrants, she remembers feeling out of place growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her mentors were impressed by her empathy for children and families.

Baurer was raised in a Jewish family in Lower Merion. Kaleem grew up Muslim in California.

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