Author: Legal Services Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Poor Seek Justice
Author: Legal Services Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Women and Justice for the Poor
Author: Felice BatlanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084539
Category : History
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 details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States.
The Extension of Legal Services to the Poor
Author: The Washington Council of Lawyers Report on the Status of Legal Services for the Poor
Author: Washington Council of LawyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Poor Seek Justice
Author: United States. Economic Opportunity OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rationing Justice
Author: Kris ShepardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
Free Legal Services for the Poor
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Extension of Legal Services to the Poor
Author: Jeanette StatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Poverty Law Today
Author: Legal Services CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Legal Aid for the Poor and the Legal Services Corporation
Author: Carl T. DonovanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616689391
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal government to address the civil legal needs of these vulnerable people as a national priority. The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a private, non-profit, federally funded corporation that helps provide legal assistance to low-income people in non-criminal (i.e., civil) matters. The primary responsibility of the LSC is to manage and oversee the congressionally appropriated federal funds that it distributes in the form of grants to local legal service providers, which in turn give legal assistance to low-income clients in all 50 states. This book explores the Legal Services Corporation, its background and funding, and addresses government accountability and weaknesses of the program.