Legal Aid Society of San Diego names Midtown office building after longtime CEO
The nonprofit Legal Aid Society of San Diego has named its Midtown office building in memory of its longtime CEO, the late Gregory E. Knoll. The building houses the Consumer Center for Health Education & Advocacy that Knoll helped establish 25 years ago. The late Gregory Evans Knoll, longtime CEO of the Legal Aid Society of San Diego. (Courtesy of the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.) Knoll, who died last August at the age of 76, had worked for the Legal Aid Society of San Diego for 50 years. The nonprofit law firm, established in 1920, provides free legal services to low-income San Diego residents.When Knoll took the helm in 1974, the law firm consisted of a small group of attorneys with a budget of $700,000. Under his guidance,…