Word: legal-aid
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Odds. To make legal aid more accessible, a few bold souls have suggested the establishment of group legal practice, modeled on company medical plans or union health insurance. The organized bar, however, is still hotly opposed. The very idea raises the old specter of "lay intermediaries." Last week the Supreme Court itself raised the specter by upholding, 6 to 2, a legal-aid plan set up years ago by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...roots in the accident-prone 1880s, when the odds against a brakeman's dying a natural death were almost 4 to 1. Employers later became liable for injuries, but trainmen had a hard time hiring good lawyers to protect their rights. In 1930 the brotherhood opened a legal-aid department - a pioneering plan offering injured trainmen the services of 16 highly skilled lawyers. Stationed around the U.S., these lawyers agreed to limit their fees to 25% of the amount recovered, and they returned part of their fees to the brotherhood...