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Poverty Law Research Guide
This guide covers researching poverty law.
Contents
Getting Started
General Poverty Law Resources
Economic Justice
Government Benefits
Homelessness
Housing Law
Legal Assistance for the Poor
Social Security
Global Poverty Law
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Books
Hidden Agendas : What is Really Behind Attacks on Legal Aid Lawyers?
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, provides a good overview and history of legal aid, plus recent professional and political issues facing legal aid attorneys.
Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story
"The story of the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium"
Standards for Programs Providing civil Pro Bono Legal Services to Persons of Limited Means.
American Bar Association standards
Pro Bono Basics
PLI handbook on providing pro bono services
Web Resources
Findlaw Legal Aid Resources
National Legal Aid & Defender Association
Legal Services Corporation: Background and Funding
CRS Report
Programs & Organizations
ABA Division of Legal Services
News items, reports and publications on Legal Aid, the Legal Services Corporation and other legal justice areas.
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Papers, articles, briefs and news on poverty issues of access to justice
LawHelp.org
Helps low and moderate income people find free legal aid programs.
Legal Services Corporation
Private, non-profit corporations established by Congress to seek to ensure equal access to justice for all.
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