Recent Developments: Civil Legal Assistance in the United States


 

Publication Date: June 2001

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Alan W. Houseman

Research Area: Justice

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Describes how the landscape of staff attorney legal aid providers has undergone substantial change since 1996. The paper describes the emergence of a number of programs not funded by the Legal Services Corporation but providing a full range of civil legal assistance and discusses the development of comprehensive, integrated, statewide delivery systems that are emerging.