Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directing the City Solicitor and Harvard attorneys to work out the legal details of the project, the Council twice voted unanimously in favor of the proposal. All that remains now is for the University and the City to sign a number of formal agreements and then for the Council to approve these agreements...
...Boston Legal Aid Society is supervising the program at the request of ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), the agency that has overall responsibility for the city's anti-poverty program...
...volunteers work out of a "neighborhood law office" in Roxbury, helping full-time lawyers there. One special task handled by the students is the preparation of pamphlets on legal problems faced by the poor. A brochure on credit buying may be the first product of their efforts; the booklet would be distributed throughout Roxbury...
Harvard Law students may become involved in another program of legal aid to the poor. The Office of Economic Opportunity has suggested that a group of students study legal education of the poor. Eight volunteers are now working on the problem. Their research in this area of "preventive law" may be used in establishing a pilot project next summer. They are working on two basic problems: compiling a list of precedents likely to be relevant in cases raised by the poor; and exploring methods of communicating legal concepts to the poor...
Although a federal study of practices of the Boston poverty program has delayed approval of any new projects, the current legal aid program has not been disrupted. It is also expected that the current investigation will not have the effect of permanently halting federal funds to Boston...