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Legal Needs of the Poor in the City of Denver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Gresham M. Sykes
Gresham M. Sykes*
Affiliation:
University of Denver
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The provision of legal services without regard for the individual's ability to pay has long been a tradition of the American legal profession. It is a basic tenet of a democratic society that the protection of individual rights cannot turn on a matter of income or social class, since justice then becomes a luxury, available to a privileged few. Our society has met this problem largely by relying on the sense of professional responsibility of private practitioners and by developing legal aid societies.

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Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , November 1969 , pp. 255 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © 1969 by the Law and Society Association.

Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This study was financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity Grant Number H.E.W. No. OEG-4-7-061236-0093.

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