Browsing Equal Justice Reports and Proceedings (Gray Literature collection) by Creation Date
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Report of the Legal Services Program, Office of Economic Opportunity, to the American Bar Association
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Memo to OEO Campaign Staff about Poor People's Campaign Demands, May 3, 1968
(1968-05-03)In the spring of 1968, the Poor People's Campaign submitted a list of demands to the Office of Economic Opportunity. Key demands included participation of citizens, especially from low income communities, in OEO's policy ... -
The legal services program--accomplishments of and problems faced by its grantees.
(1973)United States. General Accounting Office. The legal services program--accomplishments of and problems faced by its grantees. Report to the Congress [on the] Office of Economic Opportunity, by the Comptroller General of the ... -
Annual Reports
(LSC, 1974)This collection includes the annual reports from 1978 until today. Beginning in 1998-1999, the annual reports are available online from the LSC website, and researchers can access the permalink through DG. Hard copies of ... -
PAG Reports
(1978)The Project Advisory Group was established in 1967 as an advisory group to the Office of Legal Services (OLS) of the OEO. PAG served as the voice of legal services organizations, lawyers, paralegals, staff and clients. The ... -
Comments on Our Situation
(1982-03-06)Gary Bellow, Comments on Our Situation, prepared for the Conference on Legal Services, March 6, 1982.In: Poverty, issue number 9, November 1986, p.4-6. This article is part of the Gail Kinney papers, NEJL 066. -
Legal Services History (1985)
(1985-11)This is the second draft of a series of articles on the future of legal services. The history is the product of the Project on Poverty Research and Legal Services of the Center for Law and Social Policy. -
The Erlenborn Commission Report
(Legal Services Corporation, 1999)“The Erlenborn Commission was authorized by a resolution of the Corporation’s Board of Directors on November 16, 1998, to study the presence requirement in the Corporation’s statutory restriction on the representation of ... -
Gideon at 50, Part II - Redefining Indigence: Financial Eligibility Guidelines for Assigned Counsel
(NACDL, 2013-03)This 50-State Survey of Financial Eligibility Guidelines for Assigned Counsel documents how states decide who is “too poor” to hire a lawyer. The survey looks at how states define “indigency” and whether or not that ... -
Gideon at 50 Part I - Rationing Justice: The Underfunding of Assigned Counsel Systems
(National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), 2013-03)This report documents the unreasonably low rates of compensation paid to private attorneys who represent indigent defendants in state courts. The lack of adequate funding restricts the pool of attorneys willing to represent ... -
Answering Gideon's Call Outside the Courtroom:Policy Reform Strategies to Protect the Right to Counsel
(2013-03-18)On March 18, 1963, the United States Supreme Court decided Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for those who could not afford to hire an attorney. The Supreme Court stated that counsel is critical ... -
Securing Equal Justice for All: A Brief History of Civil Legal Assistance in the United States (2013)
(Washington, D.C.: CLASP, 2013-12)This short history is based on the previous written work of Justice Earl Johnson, Justice John Dooley, Martha Bergmark, and the authors. This is the third revision to our first history originally written in 2003 and ... -
The Right to Legal Aid: How British Columbia's Legal Aid System Fails to Meet International Human Rights Obligations (2014)
(Vancouver, BC: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, 2014, 2014)As a result of drastic reductions in funding for legal aid services in British Columbia (BC) over the past fifteen years, the province now fails to meet even the most basic legal aid needs of British Columbians to the point ... -
Branded for Life Florida’s Prosecution of Children as Adults under its “Direct File” Statute
(Author, 2014-04-10)This 110-page report details the harm that results from the state’s practice of giving prosecutors full discretion to decide which children to prosecute in adult courts. More than 98 percent of the 1,500 cases of children ... -
Don't I Need a Lawyer?
(Constitution Project, The, 2015)For more than a decade, The Constitution Project National Right to Counsel Committee (“Committee”) has examined the state of indigent defense in our country, determined to assist governments in realizing the promise of ...
