Law students aid the poor
KU law students are helping satisfy an often neglected need the need for legal aid for persons involved in civil cases who are financially unable to hire an attorney.
KU law students, working through one of two organizations the Douglas County Legal Aid Society or the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC) -assist members of the bar association in providing legal service to persons mainly involved in civil rights, civil liberties and poverty law cases.
The recently organized Douglas County Legal Aid Society represents a cooperative effort by the KU law school and the Douglas County Bar Association to provide legal service for the lower income residents of the county. Members of the local bar association and KU law students and professors will provide these services.
The Legal Aid Office in the basement of the Courthouse will open and will start servicing clients sometime later this month. The bulk of the cases to be handled by the office will involve welfare, housing, and consumer and domestic relations problems. Criminal cases will not be handled by the office.
An affiliate chapter of LSCRRC, a non-profit national organization, was activated on the KU campus in the fall of 1968 by 15 members of the first-year law class. It is the only LSCRRC chapter in the state.
The primary function of LSCRRC is to provide legal research assistance to attorneys working in the field of civil rights,
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civil liberties and poverty law The students provide lawyers with cases in point, research the law and write briefs. They also provide voluntary legal assistance to the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Office of Economic Opportunity Legal Programs.
LSCRRC investigated local violations of the minimum standard bousing code for the Off-Campus Housing Committee and drew up a model lease which has been distributed to the Off-Campus Housing Committee. KU law students also assisted attorneys in researching the law concerning the Wichita Free Press obscenity case.
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