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16 UCLA Asian Pac. Am. L.J. 100 (2010-2011)
Re-Considering Progressive Lawyering: The Theory and a Growing Practice in Asian Immigrant Communities

handle is hein.journals/asiapalj16 and id is 106 raw text is: Re-Considering Progressive Lawyering: The Theory and a Growing Practice in Asian Immigrant Communities Andrea C. Yang* INTRODUCTION Progressive lawyering theory assumes that fundamental social change cannot occur solely through traditional legal aid.' Whereas lawyers in legal aid represent individual clients in high volumes,2 progressive lawyers emphasize organized and politicized mass action to effect change.' They recognize that social change requires collectively mobilizing clients and encouraging civic participation.4 Over the past four decades, progressive lawyers have been associated with words like poverty,' public interest, political, collaborative, cause,9 0community,'o rebellious,' empowerment,l2 * J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2010; B.A., Harvard University, 2006. This Comment was originally developed for Professor Tanina Rostain's seminar on the American Legal Profession: Historical and Sociological Perspectives. Special thanks to Professor Rostain, Professor Matthew Fraidin, Andrew Wone, and the staff of the UCLA Asian Pacific American Low Journal for their suggestions on earlier drafts. 1. Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Client Activism in Progressive Lauering Theory, 16 CLINICAL L. REv. 109, 114-15 (2009). 2. Ingrid V. Eagly, Community Education: Creating a New Vision of Legal Services Practice, 4 CLINICAL L. REV. 433, 434 (1998). 3. Capulong, supra note 1, at 114-15. 4. Id. at 109. 5. See, e.g., Stephen Wexler, Practicing Law for Poor People, 79 YALE L.J. 1049, 1049 (1970). 6. See, e.g., Note, The New Public Interest Lawyers, 79 YALE L.J. 1069, 1070 (1970). 7. See, e.g., Gary Bellow, Steady Work: A Practitioner's Reflections on Political Lawt'ering, 31 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 297, 302 (1996). 8. See, e.g., Ascanio Piomelli, Appreciating Collaborative Lawvering, 6 CLINICAL L. REV. 427, 433 (2000); Lucie E. White, Collaborative Lawyering in the Field? On Mapping the Paths 1om Rhetoric to Practice, I CLINICAL L. REV. 157, 158 (1994). 9. See, e.g., Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold, Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction, in CAUSE LAWYERING: POLITICAL COMMITMENTS AND PROF ESSIONAL RE SPONSIBILITIES 8-9 (Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold eds., Oxford University Press 1998). 10. See, e.g., Angelo N. Ancheta, Community Lawyering, 81 CAL. L. REV. 1363, 1366 (1993) (reviewing GERALD P. Loi'Iz, RiBELLious LAWYERING: ONE CHICANO'S VISION OF PROGRESSIVE LAW PRACTICE (1992)); Zenobia Lai et al., The Lessons of the Parcel C Struggle: Reflections on Community Lawyering, 6 ASIAN PAC. AM. L.J. 1, 2 (2000). 11. See, e.g., GERALD P. LOPEz, REBELLIOUS LAWYERING: ONE CHICANO'S VISION OF PROGRESSIVE LAW PRACTICE 66 (Westview Press 1992); Paul R. Tremblay, Rebellious Lavwyering, Regnant Lawvcring, and Street-Level Bureaucracy, 43 HASTINGs L.J. 947, 948 (1992). 12. Se, e.g., William P. Quigley, Reflections of Community Organizers: Lawyering for Empowerment of Community Organizations, 21 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 455, 455 (1994).

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