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The Pendulum Swings Back: Poverty Law In The Old And New Curriculum, Martha F. Davis
The Pendulum Swings Back: Poverty Law In The Old And New Curriculum, Martha F. Davis
Martha F. Davis
In the 1960s, poverty law was new to the law schools. The energy and creativity that drove its development and integration into the legal academy was tremendous. In just a few years, dozens of new courses were introduced, preparing law students to meet the legal needs of the poor and stimulating thinking about economic inequality and societal structures that perpetuate poverty. Law schools also established new poverty law clinics, enabling direct engagement with low income clients and organizations. Political shifts and poverty's intransigence eventually dampened initial ambitions of using law to end poverty. In subsequent decades, there has been periodic …
Legal Services Programs Can Avoid Service Reductions By Improving Efficiency And Effectiveness, Wayne Moore
Legal Services Programs Can Avoid Service Reductions By Improving Efficiency And Effectiveness, Wayne Moore
wayne moore
This article describes how legal services for low-income people can be maintained or even increased despite recent decreases in funding, if some legal services programs increased their efficiency and effectiveness. Data is presented that indicates that some programs are much less efficient than others. Accepted methods are described for boosting staff output and efficiency without working faster or shortchanging time spent with clients. This can be accomplished using better technology (document generators), methods (telephone conversations can take much less time than face-to-face conversations), and systems (assigning common, routine cases to specially trained staff who use streamlined processes). Effectiveness is defined …
Atticus Finch Looks At Fifty, Michael L. Boyer
Atticus Finch Looks At Fifty, Michael L. Boyer
Michael L. Boyer
At the 50th anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird (the book and film), this piece explores the textual evidence related to Atticus Finch as a public interest lawyer as concerned with class and economic equality as racial justice. This interpretive strand has received less attention yet remains one of the most useful for post financial collapse legal professionals.