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Rochelle E. Lento
Law School's Law Quadrangle Notes
Law School's Law Quadrangle Notes
Rochelle Lento is the executive director of the Program in Legal Assistance for Urban Communities, whose goal is to enable community-based organizations to surmount certain legal obstacles by receiving necessary legal and technical assistance to rebuild their neighborhoods' economic-development and social bases.
Lento, an attorney, long-time Detroit resident, and former aide to Detroit City Council President Mary Ann Mahaffey, was hired in 1990 as the program's first director. Lento also brings to the program a history of community organizing, having worked with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
-- From the University of Michigan Law School's Law Quadrangle Notes, V. 35, Iss. 01 (1992).
In 2005, Lento left Michigan Law to return to private practice.