“I did [think about hiring a private attorney] but I can’t afford it,” Felicia Williams-Reynolds says. “If I’m only going to get back what I lost, and I have to pay the attorney 33 to 40 percent of that, where is that going to leave me?” The single mother’s distrust of the private bar discouraged her from seeking a lawyer’s advice when her annual income plummeted from $60,000 to $20,000. Williams-Reynolds contacted a federally funded pro bono legal aid organization only to be told that because her job paid $10.75 an hour, she earned too much to qualify for free services.