In 1964, when Robert F. Kennedy, then the U.S. attorney general, chastised an audience of lawyers at the University of Chicago School of Law for their failure to serve the poor, access to the legal system was a luxury-especially in the South, writes Kris B. Shepard in “Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South.”
With the establishment of a federal Legal Services Program later that year as part of President Johnson’s “war on poverty,” legal help for poor people in civil matters started to transform from ad hoc charity work by scattered local legal aid societies to an institutionalized, federally funded system with the goal of providing comprehensive legal services to all people who needed a lawyer but couldn’t afford one.
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