Legal Assistance Society records, RG.32.211

RG 32/211-84 Records of the Legal Assistance Society

Physical Location: This collection is stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections before your visit to ensure your papers are available.

3.7 Cubic Feet 9 archival boxes

1970-1981

Scope and Contents

The files of the Legal Assistance Society consist of general organizational files, including finances, correspondence, case files and information on various legal aid projects. Case files are accessible only with permission of the archivist and the Legal Aid Society.

Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Constitution, memoranda, projects, officers and project directors
1970-1973
Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Annual report, press release, some memoranda
1973
Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Neighborhood Legal Aid Society Intra-Office Memo
1974
Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Correspondence (5 folders)
1970-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Charlottesville – Albemarle Legal Aid Society (CALAS) Board of Directors: Minutes, agendas, reports, some correspondence (4 folders)
1977-1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Law School Memoranda
1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Legal Assistant Society [LAS] Newsletters
1974-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Membership lists and some memoranda (6 folders)
1974-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Memoranda and Bulletin Board Materials (7 folders)
1975-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Orientation Manual (4 folders)
1976-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Project descriptions and 1970 Annual Report
1970-1972
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Project Descriptions ( 2 folders)
1976-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Project Membership lists
1976
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Public Relations. Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly: 5-2-1975; Notice in "Community in the Academical Village", p. 11
1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Research Projects. Request forms ; signed-up sheets, some memoranda
1976
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Signed-up sheets. (2 folders)
1975-1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Virginia Legal Aid Association (VLAA) – Newsletter and Correspondence
1976-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Proposals for a Nursing Home. Ombudsman and Research Service under Title III of the Older Americans Act, Submitted to the Office on Aging, 8-22-1975; Proposal for Legal Assistance to Virginia's Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Under Section 303, Title III, C.E. T. A.; Proposal for Statewide Legal Aid Services for Inclusion in the Virginia Title XX Plan, submitted to the Department of Welfare and The Commission for Visually Handicapped, Aug. 15, 1975
1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
VLAA – Correspondence, directories
1975-1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Law School Foundation – Alumni fundrising
1977-1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Alumni Fundrising letter, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Budget and University of Virginia Student Council Appropriations Committee Allocations
1978-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Expenditures Vouchers
1978-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
LAS Correspondence
1974
Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
ABA – LAS Grants
1976-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS - Financial Reports
1976-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS Memoranda for Project Directors. General Activities and Resources Materials; Organization of Death Penalty Conference 3-21-1980; some financial issues
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
Public Service Announcements
1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS – Social Dues
1976-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS – Student Activities Funds
1976-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council Regulations, Instructions, Allocations, Memoranda
1973-1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council – LAS Allocations; Budget Proposals
1973-1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council Activities. Guidelines, correspondence, budget; appeal of LAS , Summary of Activities
1976-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
Blank forms used by LAS
Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law. Memoranda, (3 folders)
1976-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Center for Law and Social Policy – Externships
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Circuit Riders Expansion. [Correspondence re: legal assistance in Buckingham County, VA; creation of an "Information and Referral Service for Low Income Residents"].
1974-1976
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Circuit Riders Project. [Students assistance to attorneys from the Charlottesville – Albemarle Legal Aid Society Office, providing legal services to clients living in the counties of Fluvanna, Green, Louisa and Nelson].
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Downtown Office Project. Sign-up sheets, report, orientation
1976
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Expanding Legal Services Project
1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Externship Programs
1972
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Food Law in Virginia
1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Juvenile Court Project. [Papers presented as application to the Legal Assistance Society]
1970
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Labor Symposium Packets
1978-03
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Legal Assistance Society - Murphy Amendment. Petition against the Murphy Amendment that restricted legal services work in the federal antipoverty programs]. Correspondence, clippings
1969
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Legal Assistance to Vietnamese Refugees
1975
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Legal Services Corporation [Private, non-profit corporation to provide financial legal assistance to the poor]. Policies, reports
1977-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
P-CAP [Post Conviction Assistance Program] Presentation Cards, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Mental Health Conference: "Implementing the Rights of Mental Patients". Proposal
1977-11-02
Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Robinson v. Bergland (Food Stamp Case). Legal documents, some correspondence [Restricted]
1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Rural Law Project: Rural America [Newspaper Clippings]
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Rural Law Project Proposal
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Southern Regional Education Board – Externships
1969
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Undergraduate Intern
1976-1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Virginia Department of Corrections Ombudsman Office cards and Offender Aid Restoration [OAR] member list, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Virginia Law Women – "Women, Health and the Law Conference". Brochure
1978-03
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Waynesboro Project
1978-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Waynesboro Project - McCarthy v. McCarthy
1978-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Waynesboro Project – Price v. Price [Restrictions Apply]
1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Welfare Rights – comments on a case [Restrictions Apply]
1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Inmates' Assistance Project [IAP] [Restrictions Apply]
1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
IAP – Attorneys list
1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Correspondence
1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP – Divorces. Correspondence, forms [Restrictions Apply]
1980-1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Membership lists and forms
1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP – Memoranda
1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Memorandum re: Need of a Committee in Prisoner – Plaintiff Divorce [Restrictions Apply]
1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Questionnaires, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP - Statewide Meeting.
1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
AIP – Case Files A –Z (2 folders) [Restricted]
1979-1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
Women's Prison Project [WPP] – General. Correspondence, research materials (3 folders)
1979-1980
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP – Aid to Dependent Children, undated [Restrictions Apply]
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP Booklet Draft
1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
Memo to Women's Prison Project Participants; divorce forms, interview forms, release forms, sample forms, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP – Goochland Class
1976-1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP – Correspondence, memoranda, some administrative files
1977-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
Goochland Investigation [Restrictions Apply]
1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP – LAS Alderson Legal Assistance Program with Washington and Lee University (2 folders)
1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Mimeo Masters, undated
Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Parole Class
1977
Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Research Materials
1978-1979
Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Case Files A – Z (4 folders) [Restricted]
1978-1981
Mixed Materials [35007007832441] Box 9
Western State Hospital Project – LAS Grant Application
1978
Mixed Materials [35007007832441] Box 9
Western State Hospital – Mental Health Legal Aspects, undated [Restrictions Apply]
Mixed Materials [35007007832441] Box 9
Western State Hospital – Case Files A – Z (3 folders) [Restricted]
1979-1982

RG 32/211-07 Records of the Legal Assistance Society

4 Cubic Feet 10 archival boxes

1974-1998

Scope and Contents

The Legal Assistance Society (LAS) Records (1974-1998) were transferred to Special Collections by Executive Director Erika Alonso in December of 2007.

The records were organized in general administrative papers and project files. Special Collections kept the original organization of the files.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These records were transferred to Special Collections by Executive Director Erika Alonso in December of 2007.

Processing Information

These files were organized in two:

1. General Administrative Files: memoranda and correspondence between the different members of the organization, handbooks, manuals, by-laws, etc.

2. Project files: Labor Project, Native American Law Project and Western State Hospital Project are of most importance. There is also documentation on the Migrant Farmworker Program and the Low Income Housing Project.

Conditions Governing Use

Case files are available with permission from the archivist and LAS.

Administrative Files
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS Articles of Incorporation of The Legal Assistance Society Incorporated. A Virginia Non-stock Corporation; Proposal, Constitution, By-Laws.
  1989-1991
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS Banquet. [Award to Professor Jan M. Levine]
  1989-1990
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Board Meetings; memberships lists
  1988-1989
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Budget and funding. 1986-87 Budget Breakdown; Spring 1989 Appropriations Process; 1989-90 Administrative Expenses; Procedures for Spending Funds
  1986-1990
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - By-Laws and List of Project Directors
  1990
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - CALAS [Charlottesville - Albemarle Legal Aid Society]. Memorandum of Agreement; Workforce Analysis Sheets; Analysis of Restrictions in HR 3019 Omnibus Continuing Education; Compliance Policies; Minutes of Board of Directors of 1997-01-14.
  1996-1997
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS Constitution, undated
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Expenses
  1999-2000
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Forma Pauperis [forms], undated
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Insurance
  1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Liability Issues; Memoranda
  1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Memoranda to/from Dean's Office re Liability, Funds
  1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Memoranda, Summary of Activities, Appropriations Process, Petition for Qualification as a Contracted Independent Organization; some notes
  1995-1996
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Newspaper and magazine articles re LAS, 1990, 1999
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - State Corporation Papers, 1996-1997; 1997-2000
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Student Council Forms and contracts for Student Organizations, 1988-1989; 1998-2000
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Summary of Activities, Appropriations Process
  1992-1993
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Training Manual, Fall 1977
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - Training Manual. Memorandum re LAS Manual, 1980, 1982
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  University of Virginia Agreements for a Contracted Independent Organization
  1994-1996
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  Virginia Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Documents: Confidentiality of Patient and Resident Records (1978); Policy of Abuse of Patients and Residents (1980); Patient/Resident Abuse Investigations (1982); Rules and Regulations to Assure the Rights of Residents: DMM26 (1983); Patient Self-Determination Act (1991); "Your Right to Decide" Pamphlet, 1978-1983, 1991
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
  LAS - PILR [Public Interest Law Roundtable] Newsletter
  1990

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