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The No Fee and Low Fee Legal Practice of Private Attorneys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Philip R. Lochner Jr.
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For a half century or more it has been understood that the services of attorneys are not equally available to all who need them and a body of research has gradually been assembled which casts light on a number of factors relevant to how clients find attorneys and pay for their services. Among issues which have been probed are: the nature and extent of the public's need for legal services, the reasons for the failure of the poor to refer their problems to attorneys, the effect of OEO and legal aid offices on availability of legal services and the need for improved legal services for the middle class (Christensen, 1970). With few exceptions, however, the role of individual practicing attorneys in making legal services more widely available by occasionally working for a reduced fee, or for no fee at all, has never been systematically studied.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Spring 1975 , pp. 431 - 473
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Copyright © 1975 The Law and Society Association

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This study was made possible by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation.

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