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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabor0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONTRIBUTORS Jon D. Asher, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver Martha Bergmark, South East Mississippi Legal Services Leanne Bernstein, Legal Services Corporation John Prather Brown, Chase, Brown & Blaxell Thomas Buchanan, U.S. Department of Energy Michael J. Coster, Legal Services Corporation Steven R. Cox, Arizona State University W. Clark Durant III, Legal Services Corporation John C. Hansen, U.S. General Accounting Office Gregg L. Hartley, Missouri Opportunity 2000 Commission William F. Harvey, Indiana University School of Law Peter T. Hoffman, University of Nebraska College of Law Alan W. Houseman, Center for Law and Social Policy Esther Lardent, independent consultant Marion Ein Lewin, National Academy of Sciences Michael K. Lewis, National Institute of Dispute Resolution F. William McCalpin, Lewis & Rice De Miller, New Jersey Legal Services Thomas Morgan, Emory University Law School Alan Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group Charles T Moses III, Legal Services Corporation James R. Neuhard, Michigan Appellate Defender Officer William J. Olson, Smiley, Olson, Gilman & Pangia Van O'Steen, Van O'Steen and Partners Keith Osterhage, Legal Services Corporation Ronald Preston, U.S. Department of Education Mary Westfall Rosen, George Washington University Leslie Q. Russell, Legal Services Corporation Robert Sable, National Consumer Law Center John A. Tull, John A. Tull and Associates Leona M. Vogt, social science consultant Russell Wallman, Nuffield-Leverhulme Fellow in Legal Services, London Legal Services for the Poor: Time for Reform is must reading for anyone concerned with the future direction of the federal legal services program. Besharov describes the urgent need for decisive reform now.' -Terrance J. Wear President, Legal Services Corporation The need to reform the basic structure of the Legal Serv- ices Corporation is abundantly clear and yet has been continually thwarted by supporters of the status quo. Perhaps this excellent book-which is the first comprehensive study of the problems associated with the legal services program- will provide the basis for finally gaining congressional approval of LSC reform initiatives.' -Congressman Bill McCollum STARTED AS PART OF THE WAR ON POVERTY, the federal legal services program is now a sprawling federal program employing nearly 3,700 full-time lawyers and 6,200 others who serve 1.4 million clients each year. This volume begins with An Agenda for Reform,' by Douglas J. Besharov, which documents the program's de- clining productivity and apparent unresponsiveness to the legal needs of poor people-especially single mothers and their children. It continues with a roundup of opinion by a group of experts and it concludes with prepared statements, background, and bibliography. According to Alan W. Houseman, director of the Center for Law and Social Policy and one of the contributors to this volume: It may now be possible to engage again in a thoughtful, nonideological examination of how legal serv- ices programs can improve their effectiveness, productivity, and accountability to clients. While some may disagree with Besharov's agenda for reform, it makes a significant contribution to such an inquiry and poses a useful and necessary challenge to legal services and the bar' -B,.- ., ,o edit.-o r.YJ ABOUT THE BOOK Part 1 of Legal Services for the Poor: Time for Reform makes recommendations about how to improve the operations and management of the federal legal services program. Many, but not all, of these recommendations can be imple- mented without congressional action. Part 2 is an edited transcript of a conference, Maximizing Access to Justice for Poor Persons: Greater Efficiency through Innovation, Per- formance Monitoring, and Competition for Funds The conferees focus on how federal legal services funds can be used more efficiently. Two appendixes provide basic background information about the legal services program. They describe grant-making procedures, federal appropriations and other sources of funding, restrictions on grantees' activities, eligibility and characteristics of clients, priority setting, local programs, and national support centers. Legal Services for the Poor also contains an extensive bibliography of published and un- published materials on legal services. ABOUT THE EDITOR Douglas J. Besharov is a lawyer and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Project on Social and Individual Responsibility. Cur- rently on the adjunct law faculties of George- town University and The American University, Mr. Besharov has taught family law, torts, and criminal law. Cover design by Peggy Friedlander ISBSN 978-0-8447-3689-1 11111 Ii'90000 9780844 736891 liii1111111

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