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Ashley Wiltshire is a retired lawyer who spent thirty-seven years with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.

Everyday Justice

A Legal Aid Story

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0510-1
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2022
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The Legal Aid Society’s mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low income and vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life.

Everyday Justice is the story of the development and evolution of legal aid in Middle Tennessee from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium, as told by Ashley Wiltshire, who worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands in all its incarnations for four decades, beginning a year after its inception.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780826505101
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8265-0510-1
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2022
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 641 g
  • Seiten: 284
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

- Introduction
- 1. Early Legal Aid: National and Nashville, 1876-1965
- 2. Establishing Legal Services of Nashville, 1965-1968
- 3. Conflicts Inside and Out, 1969-1973
- 4. Wide-Ranging Advocacy, 1973-1976
- 5. We Grow, 1976-1980
- 6. Nasty, Brutish, and Long
- 7. Mostly Drake
- 8. Women Lawyers Challenge Domestic Violence
- 9. Family Dramas
- 10. Young Lawyers Change Juvenile Law
- 11. Bless This House
- 12. Caveat Emptor Challenged
- 13. Five Women Reform Industrial Insurance
- 14. Hospitals, Banks, Automobile Dealers, and the United Way
- 15. Doomsday, 1981-1991
- 16. It’s an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
- 17. Healthcare and Paying for It
- 18. Social Security Disability
- 19. Justice is Everybody’s Business
- 20. High Hopes, Doomsday II, and Consolidation, 1992-2002
- 21. A Unique Practice of Law
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography