Nearly $18,000 left over from a class-action settlement will help the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law continue to represent low-income individuals in housing and other matters. In late October, Berton N. Ring, owner of Berton N. Ring P.C., gave John M. Bouman, the Shriver center’s president, checks totaling $17,960. That money resulted from a cy pres award stemming from a case in which Ring represented the plaintiff class. The cy pres doctrine allows judges to direct unclaimed monetary awards to …