"Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. At the program's zenith in 1981, more than 1,450 offices employing six thousand attorneys and three thousand paralegals worked to aid those who could not afford private attorneys. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South."--BOOK JACKET.

In June 1967 the American Bar Foundation undertook a study of utilization by the poor of legal services. The purpose of this research was to learn the extent to which low-income people availed themselves of legal service & to determine what factors affected their use of legal services. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.