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The Organized Bar--Yellow Brick Road To Legal Services For The Poor, Lawrence L. Thompson
The Organized Bar--Yellow Brick Road To Legal Services For The Poor, Lawrence L. Thompson
Vanderbilt Law Review
The experience of GILS-GLSP demonstrates that the extensive investment of time necessary to involve the organized bar in the legal services effort can make a vital contribution to the development of a stable, professional, statewide, legal services program. Bar support eases access to the political process, improves community relations, and facilitates program funding. Furthermore, bar support helps reduce the political strife that has heretofore plagued legal services programs. The rewards of such an approach can be great. Adequate funding obtained with active bar support has enabled GILS-GLSP to provide increasingly comprehensive legal services to indigent clients. From a modest budget …