RG 32/211 211-
Records of the Legal Assistance Society
Overview
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English |
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7.5 Cubic Feet (19 archival boxes) |
Scope & Contents
Collection Description
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Biographical / Historical
The Legal Assistance Society at the University of Virginia School of Law was conceived in 1967 in respond to a question that Justice William J. Brennan had asked the year before during oral arguments heard at the Law School in March of 1966:
“Might it not be possible to expose a much larger percentage of the student body, at some time during the three years of law school to the realities of the attorney-client relationship?” (VLW, v. xix, no. 14, Feb. 9, 1967, p.2).
The Virginia Law Weekly announced the soon to be established new organization: “Beginning June 1, an office will be opened....by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association to provide free civil legal aid to any person who shows to be indigent and in genuine need of a lawyer’s help. Students of the law school will be needed to staff the office and to assist the lawyers in research, drawing up documents or anything else the lawyer assigned to the case would like him to do.” (VLW, v. xix, no. 24, May 4, 1967). The program began in the Fall of 1967.
The director of the newly formed Legal Aid Society was Myron P. Simmons, the assistant director was Peter W. Windrem and the faculty advisor was Professor Peter C. Mason. (VLW, v. xx, no. 2, p. 2, Thursday September 28, 1967.) The organization was directly affiliated (and still is) with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Legal Aid Society, Inc. The membership was limited to forty students.
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Physical Location
32/211-84 is stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections before your visit to ensure your papers are available.
| Legal Assistance Society 1969 Presentation of Petition | |
| seriesRG 32/211-84 Records of the Legal Assistance Society, 1970 - 1981 | |
| fileConstitution, memoranda, projects, officers and project directors, 1970 - 1973 | Box 1 |
| fileAnnual report, press release, some memoranda, 1973 | Box 1 |
| fileNeighborhood Legal Aid Society Intra-Office Memo, 1974 | Box 1 |
| fileCorrespondence (5 folders), 1970 - 1979 | Box 1 |
| fileCharlottesville – Albemarle Legal Aid Society (CALAS) Board of Directors: Minutes, agendas, reports, some correspondence (4 folders), 1977 - 1981 | Box 1 |
| fileLaw School Memoranda, 1975 | Box 2 |
| fileLegal Assistant Society [LAS] Newsletters, 1974 - 1977 | Box 2 |
| fileMembership lists and some memoranda (6 folders), 1974 - 1980 | Box 2 |
| fileMemoranda and Bulletin Board Materials (7 folders), 1975 - 1980 | Box 2 |
| fileOrientation Manual (4 folders), 1976 - 1980 | Box 2 |
| fileProject descriptions and 1970 Annual Report, 1970 - 1972 | Box 3 |
| fileProject Descriptions ( 2 folders), 1976 - 1977 | Box 3 |
| fileProject Membership lists, 1976 | Box 3 |
| filePublic Relations. Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly: 5-2-1975; Notice in “Community in the Academical Village”, p. 11, 1975 | Box 3 |
| fileResearch Projects. Request forms ; signed-up sheets, some memoranda, 1976 | Box 3 |
| fileSigned-up sheets. (2 folders), 1975 - 1978 | Box 3 |
| fileVirginia Legal Aid Association (VLAA) – Newsletter and Correspondence, 1976 - 1980 | Box 3 |
| fileProposals for a Nursing Home. Ombudsman and Research Service under Title III of the Older Americans Act, Submitted to the Office on Aging, 8-22-1975; Proposal for Legal Assistance to Virginia’s Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Under Section 303, Title III | Box 3 |
| fileVLAA – Correspondence, directories, 1975 - 1978 | Box 3 |
| fileLaw School Foundation – Alumni fundrising, 1977 - 1978 | Box 3 |
| fileAlumni Fundrising letter, undated | Box 3 |
| fileBudget and University of Virginia Student Council Appropriations Committee Allocations, 1978 - 1980 | Box 3 |
| fileExpenditures Vouchers, 1978 - 1979 | Box 3 |
| fileLAS Correspondence, 1974 | Box 3 |
| fileABA – LAS Grants, 1976 - 1979 | Box 3 |
| fileLAS - Financial Reports, 1976 - 1979 | Box 4 |
| fileLAS Memoranda for Project Directors. General Activities and Resources Materials; Organization of Death Penalty Conference 3-21-1980; some financial issues, 1979 - 1980 | Box 4 |
| filePublic Service Announcements, 1979 | Box 4 |
| fileLAS – Social Dues, 1976 - 1977 | Box 4 |
| fileLAS – Student Activities Funds, 1976 - 1977 | Box 4 |
| fileUniversity of Virginia Student Council Regulations, Instructions, Allocations, Memoranda, 1973 - 1975 | Box 4 |
| fileUniversity of Virginia Student Council – LAS Allocations; Budget Proposals, 1973 - 1975 | Box 4 |
| fileUniversity of Virginia Student Council Activities. Guidelines, correspondence, budget; appeal of LAS , Summary of Activities, 1976 - 1977 | Box 4 |
| fileBlank forms used by LAS | Box 4 |
| fileCenter on Social Welfare Policy and Law. Memoranda, (3 folders), 1976 - 1980 | Box 4 |
| fileCenter for Law and Social Policy – Externships, 1979 - 1980 | Box 5 |
| fileCircuit Riders Expansion. [Correspondence re: legal assistance in Buckingham County, VA; creation of an “Information and Referral Service for Low Income Residents”]. , 1974 - 1976 | Box 5 |
| fileCircuit Riders Project. [Students assistance to attorneys from the Charlottesville – Albemarle Legal Aid Society Office, providing legal services to clients living in the counties of Fluvanna, Green, Louisa and Nelson]., 1979 - 1980 | Box 5 |
| fileDowntown Office Project. Sign-up sheets, report, orientation, 1976 | Box 5 |
| fileExpanding Legal Services Project, 1975 | Box 5 |
| fileExternship Programs, 1972 | Box 5 |
| fileFood Law in Virginia, 1978 | Box 5 |
| fileJuvenile Court Project. [Papers presented as application to the Legal Assistance Society], 1970 | Box 5 |
| fileLabor Symposium Packets, 1978-03 | Box 5 |
| fileLegal Assistance Society - Murphy Amendment. Petition against the Murphy Amendment that restricted legal services work in the federal antipoverty programs]. Correspondence, clippings, 1969 | Box 5 |
| fileLegal Assistance to Vietnamese Refugees, 1975 | Box 5 |
| fileLegal Services Corporation [Private, non-profit corporation to provide financial legal assistance to the poor]. Policies, reports, 1977 - 1979 | Box 5 |
| fileP-CAP [Post Conviction Assistance Program] Presentation Cards, undated | Box 5 |
| fileMental Health Conference: “Implementing the Rights of Mental Patients”. Proposal, 1977-11-02 | Box 5 |
| fileRobinson v. Bergland (Food Stamp Case). Legal documents, some correspondence [Restricted], 1980 | Box 5 |
| fileRural Law Project: Rural America [Newspaper Clippings], 1979 - 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileRural Law Project Proposal, 1979 - 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileSouthern Regional Education Board – Externships, 1969 | Box 6 |
| fileUndergraduate Intern, 1976 - 1977 | Box 6 |
| fileVirginia Department of Corrections Ombudsman Office cards and Offender Aid Restoration [OAR] member list, undated | Box 6 |
| fileVirginia Law Women – “Women, Health and the Law Conference”. Brochure, 1978-03 | Box 6 |
| fileWaynesboro Project , 1978 - 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileWaynesboro Project - McCarthy v. McCarthy, 1978 - 1979 | Box 6 |
| fileWaynesboro Project – Price v. Price [Restrictions Apply], 1979 | Box 6 |
| fileWelfare Rights – comments on a case [Restrictions Apply], 1978 | Box 6 |
| fileInmates’ Assistance Project [IAP] [Restrictions Apply], 1981 | Box 6 |
| fileIAP – Attorneys list, 1981 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP Correspondence, 1979 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP – Divorces. Correspondence, forms [Restrictions Apply], 1980 - 1981 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP Membership lists and forms, 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP – Memoranda, 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP Memorandum re: Need of a Committee in Prisoner – Plaintiff Divorce [Restrictions Apply], 1980 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP Questionnaires, undated | Box 6 |
| fileAIP - Statewide Meeting., 1979 | Box 6 |
| fileAIP – Case Files A –Z (2 folders) [Restricted], 1979 - 1981 | Box 7 |
| fileWomen’s Prison Project [WPP] – General. Correspondence, research materials (3 folders), 1979 - 1980 | Box 7 |
| fileWPP – Aid to Dependent Children, undated [Restrictions Apply] | Box 7 |
| fileWPP Booklet Draft, 1978 | Box 7 |
| fileMemo to Women’s Prison Project Participants; divorce forms, interview forms, release forms, sample forms, undated | Box 7 |
| fileWPP – Goochland Class, 1976 - 1978 | Box 7 |
| fileWPP – Correspondence, memoranda, some administrative files, 1977 - 1979 | Box 7 |
| fileGoochland Investigation [Restrictions Apply], 1977 | Box 7 |
| fileWPP – LAS Alderson Legal Assistance Program with Washington and Lee University (2 folders), 1977 | Box 7 |
| fileWPP Mimeo Masters, undated | Box 8 |
| fileWPP Parole Class, 1977 | Box 8 |
| fileWPP Research Materials, 1978 - 1979 | Box 8 |
| fileWPP Case Files A – Z (4 folders) [Restricted], 1978 - 1981 | Box 8 |
| fileWestern State Hospital Project – LAS Grant Application, 1978 | Box 9 |
| fileWestern State Hospital – Mental Health Legal Aspects, undated [Restrictions Apply] | Box 9 |
| fileWestern State Hospital – Case Files A – Z (3 folders) [Restricted], 1979 - 1982 | Box 9 |
| seriesRG 32/211-07 Records of the Legal Assistance Society, 1974 - 1998 | |
| subseriesAdministrative Files | |
| fileLAS Articles of Incorporation of The Legal Assistance Society Incorporated. A Virginia Non-stock Corporation; Proposal, Constitution, By-Laws., 1989 - 1991 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS Banquet. [Award to Professor Jan M. Levine], 1989 - 1990 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Board Meetings; memberships lists, 1988 - 1989 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Budget and funding. 1986-87 Budget Breakdown; Spring 1989 Appropriations Process; 1989-90 Administrative Expenses; Procedures for Spending Funds, 1986 - 1990 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - By-Laws and List of Project Directors, 1990 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - CALAS [Charlottesville - Albemarle Legal Aid Society]. Memorandum of Agreement; Workforce Analysis Sheets; Analysis of Restrictions in HR 3019 Omnibus Continuing Education; Compliance Policies; Minutes of Board of Directors of 1997-01-14., 1996 - 19 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS Constitution, undated | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Expenses, 1999 - 2000 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Forma Pauperis [forms], undated | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Insurance, 1988 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Liability Issues; Memoranda, 1988 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Memoranda to/from Dean’s Office re Liability, Funds, 1988 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Memoranda, Summary of Activities, Appropriations Process, Petition for Qualification as a Contracted Independent Organization; some notes, 1995 - 1996 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Newspaper and magazine articles re LAS, 1990, 1999 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - State Corporation Papers, 1996-1997; 1997-2000 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Student Council Forms and contracts for Student Organizations, 1988-1989; 1998-2000 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Summary of Activities, Appropriations Process, 1992 - 1993 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Training Manual, Fall 1977 | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - Training Manual. Memorandum re LAS Manual, 1980, 1982 | Box 10 |
| fileUniversity of Virginia Agreements for a Contracted Independent Organization, 1994 - 1996 | Box 10 |
| fileVirginia Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Documents: Confidentiality of Patient and Resident Records (1978); Policy of Abuse of Patients and Residents (1980); Patient/Resident Abuse Investigations (1982); Rules and Regulations to Assure | Box 10 |
| fileLAS - PILR [Public Interest Law Roundtable] Newsletter, 1990 | Box 10 |
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