Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticize a profession that had brought them wealth and comfort, and there was strong initial resistance. But as debate developed, they gradually agreed that the law could become irrelevant to today's changing society if changes were not made. Most far-reaching was the contention that "access to legal services must be recognized as a matter of legal right...
...been at least 40 years," said Stanford Law School Dean Bayless Manning, "since the perception became clear that the legal process is a part of the social process as a whole, but we have done little with that perception in our law schools other than to talk about it. We lawyers have a major new task. The problem before us is ourselves...
...statement clearly extended to civil as well as criminal proceedings, and such a development would expand small-bore cases in a geometrically progressive explosion. Divorces, housing problems, job denials, welfare claims-all such relatively tiny disputes would entitle the principals to legal representation. Now, even with the OEO law offices that have sprouted around the country, most such cases never enter the legal process at all unless the disputant can afford a lawyer or has a claim that seems likely to establish a precedent...
...Because of the growing complexity of the law, some method of certificating specialists should be developed "as a means of aiding the public to secure competent legal services for particularized needs." In addition, continuing legal education is of growing importance for attorneys, judges and policymaking officials of such administrative agencies as welfare departments...
...quantum increase in funding of legal education "is required from Government, foundations, corporations,^ the legal profession and other sources." So critical is the problem that Dean Manning told off the assembled lawyers with unaccustomed heat one evening. "You're not supporting your profession," he said. "You don't care. You never have, and you still...