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Quick to laugh and wearing black jeans on a work day, Michelle Barclay doesn’t seem like a typical lawyer. But for the community legal centre solicitor, that’s exactly the point. It took Ms Barclay a year and a half to win the trust of the women incarcerated in Canberra’s prison. Visiting the Alexander Maconochie Centre monthly with Canberra Community Law’s legal literacy program, Ms Barclay knew inmates saw lawyers as unapproachable and…
