On November 30, 2001, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and Demos co-sponsored a conference entitled: “Eliminating Barriers to Voting: Election Day Registration.”
“Left Out in the Cold” explores limits on legal services advocacy from the clients’ perspective, illuminating ways in which individuals’ sympathetic problems could be effectively addressed by class-action suits brought by legal services lawyers.
Bearing Witness presents true narratives of individuals and families whose lives were altered for the better by the tenacious efforts of lawyers working on their behalf in programs funded by our nation’s Legal Services Corporation.
“Restricting Legal Services” documents the importance of restricted forms of lawyering to individuals and communities unable to afford private counsel.
Written through the lens of Maryland’s Legal Aid Bureau, “Making the Case” provides a 360-degree examination of many of the inspiring and infuriating aspects of how our nation does, and does not, provide civil legal assistance to its weakest members.