Featured Member: Center for Law and Social Policy
Legal Services E-lert
Bibliographic Info:
Author: Joanna Mareth
Source: Electronic Policy Network
Date: 1/6/2000
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Executive Director Alan Houseman discusses CLASP’s mission to revitalize legal services nationwide. He says, “One of the things we’re trying to do with our Project for the Future of Equal Justice, along with the NLADA, is create in each state a comprehensive integrated delivery system.” Houseman explains that legal services is “no longer primarily a federal program,” but is rather a “federal/state program.” He suggests that because of this shift, providers need to view delivery of services as a statewide mission in order to “reach all the people as efficiently and effectively” as possible. Houseman also discusses CLASP’s Equal Justice website, which is working to “create a set of gateways so that any person who has a civil legal assistance problem can find out where to go for help…and where advocates and lawyers can get the information they need to provide legal assistance competently.” Joanna Mareth, Featured Member: Center for Law and Social Policy, Electronic Policy Network, Jan. 6, 2000, www.epn.org/feature/index.html.