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Legal Services for Struggling Veterans - Then and NowSteven K. BerensonThomas Jefferson School of Law Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 101, 2009 Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 1616885 NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 10/11 # 3 Abstract: This Article was written as part of a symposium to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Southeastern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS). During this past century, the broader movement for the provision of civil legal services to poor people in America went through a number of periods of expansion, contraction, and stasis. Yet, for the most part, struggling veterans stood outside those ebbs and flows, and have not generally been considered an appropriate demographic group at which to target the provision of free civil legal assistance. This Article seeks to document that fact, and to consider why it is so. The Article then goes on to discuss challenges in representing struggling veterans, particularly those returning from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also discusses some recent initiatives to increase the availability of free civil legal assistance to struggling veterans.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 42 Keywords: veterans legal services, legal aid, legal services JEL Classification: K10, K40, K49 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: May 28, 2010 ; Last revised: October 21, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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