Author: Jeanette StatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Extension of Legal Services to the Poor
Author: Jeanette StatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Extension of Legal Services to the Poor
Author: Public Interest Law
Author: Burton A. WeisbrodPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520310802
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
What is public interest law? How effective is it? What are the limits to litigation as a mechanism for conflict resolution? In this study, economists, lawyers, and sociologists evaluate an institutional form that is new to American society and, indeed, to the world--the public interest law (PIL) organization. The book introduces the reader to the structure, resources, and activities of this "nonprofit industry," and also to the factors that affect PIL firms in their choices of cases and methods of handling them. The authors examine PIL's vast range of contemporary public policy concerns. These incude such general topics as the environment, consumerism, housing, employment discrimination, medical care, occupational health and safety, education finance, and taxation. A number of base studies are presented, and a method for economic analysis and evaluation is introduced and applied. The study points to PIL's success in advocating under-represented interests, in winning courtroom decisions, and in translating legal victories into reallocations of resources. At the same time, it notes the bias of PIL towards test-case litigation, a propensity to focus on judicial victories rather than on real social change, and a tendency to use lawyers even when other types of professionals might be more effective. Many of these problems stem from uncertainty of funding and legal restrictions on "nonprofit" organizations. The result is a set of hurdles that distracts PIL firms from their principal goals. The authors do not limit themselves to PIL, but comment on the effectiveness of legal instruments as devices for social change, and on the behavior of the voluntary nonprofit sector, a little-studied portion of the economy. The book presents a fresh approach to the study of both collective-type economic problems and institutional setting in which public interest law works. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of DelegatesPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Recommendations and Reports
Author: Administrative Conference of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
ABA Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Poverty Studies in the Sixties
Author: United States. Social Security Administration. Office of Research and StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Over 550 references to reports, government documents, books, legislation, and journal articles published between 1960-1969. Entries arranged alphabetically by authors under topics. Author index.
Legal Services Corporation Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Clearinghouse Review
Author: Justice and Reform
Author: Earl JohnsonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412827089
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description