Author: Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the German Legal Aid Society
Author: Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Annual Report of the President, Treasurer and Attorney of the German Legal Aid Society
Author: Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
List of members in each report.
Women and Justice for the Poor
Author: Felice BatlanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316033716
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such assistance. Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted. In response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the meaning of justice for the poor.
To Establish Justice for All
Author: Earl JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313357072
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1045
Book Description
For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.
History of the Legal Aid Society of New York, 1876-1912
Author: J. P. SchmittHarvard Legal Commentary
Author: The Legal Aid Review
Author: Anglo-American Law Collections
Author: Mortimer D. SchwartzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
President's Message and Annual Reports
Author: Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Bar Association
Author: American Bar AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description