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Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections
Arthur J. Morris Law Library580 Massie Road
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
archives@law.virginia.edu
URL: http://archives.law.virginia.edu/
Biographical / Historical
The Legal Assistance Society at the University of Virginia School of Law was conceived in 1967 in respond to a question that Justice William J. Brennan had asked the year before during oral arguments heard at the Law School in March of 1966:
"Might it not be possible to expose a much larger percentage of the student body, at some time during the three years of law school to the realities of the attorney-client relationship?" (VLW, v. xix, no. 14, Feb. 9, 1967, p.2).
The Virginia Law Weekly announced the soon to be established new organization: "Beginning June 1, an office will be opened....by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association to provide free civil legal aid to any person who shows to be indigent and in genuine need of a lawyer's help. Students of the law school will be needed to staff the office and to assist the lawyers in research, drawing up documents or anything else the lawyer assigned to the case would like him to do." (VLW, v. xix, no. 24, May 4, 1967). The program began in the Fall of 1967.
The director of the newly formed Legal Aid Society was Myron P. Simmons, the assistant director was Peter W. Windrem and the faculty advisor was Professor Peter C. Mason. (VLW, v. xx, no. 2, p. 2, Thursday September 28, 1967.) The organization was directly affiliated (and still is) with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Legal Aid Society, Inc. The membership was limited to forty students.
Container List
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 directors1970-1973
- Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Annual report, press release, some memoranda1973
- Mixed Materials [35007007832367] Box 1
Neighborhood Legal Aid Society Intra-Office Memo1974
- 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 Memoranda1975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832375] Box 2
Legal Assistant Society [LAS] Newsletters1974-1977
- 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 Report1970-1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Project Descriptions ( 2 folders)1976-1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Project Membership lists1976
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Public Relations. Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly: 5-2-1975; Notice in "Community in the Academical Village", p. 111975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Research Projects. Request forms ; signed-up sheets, some memoranda1976
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Signed-up sheets. (2 folders)1975-1978
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Virginia Legal Aid Association (VLAA) – Newsletter and Correspondence1976-1980
- 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, 19751975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
VLAA – Correspondence, directories1975-1978
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Law School Foundation – Alumni fundrising1977-1978
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Alumni Fundrising letter, undated
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Budget and University of Virginia Student Council Appropriations Committee Allocations1978-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
Expenditures Vouchers1978-1979
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
LAS Correspondence1974
- Mixed Materials [35007007832383] Box 3
ABA – LAS Grants1976-1979
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS - Financial Reports1976-1979
- 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 issues1979-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
Public Service Announcements1979
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS – Social Dues1976-1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
LAS – Student Activities Funds1976-1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council Regulations, Instructions, Allocations, Memoranda1973-1975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council – LAS Allocations; Budget Proposals1973-1975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832391] Box 4
University of Virginia Student Council Activities. Guidelines, correspondence, budget; appeal of LAS , Summary of Activities1976-1977
- 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 – Externships1979-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5 1974-1976
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5 1979-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Downtown Office Project. Sign-up sheets, report, orientation1976
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Expanding Legal Services Project1975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Externship Programs1972
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Food Law in Virginia1978
- 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 Packets1978-03
- 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, clippings1969
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Legal Assistance to Vietnamese Refugees1975
- Mixed Materials [35007007832409] Box 5
Legal Services Corporation [Private, non-profit corporation to provide financial legal assistance to the poor]. Policies, reports1977-1979
- 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". Proposal1977-11-02
- 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 Proposal1979-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Southern Regional Education Board – Externships1969
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Undergraduate Intern1976-1977
- 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". Brochure1978-03
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Waynesboro Project1978-1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
Waynesboro Project - McCarthy v. McCarthy1978-1979
- 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 list1981
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Correspondence1979
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP – Divorces. Correspondence, forms [Restrictions Apply]1980-1981
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP Membership lists and forms1980
- Mixed Materials [35007007832417] Box 6
AIP – Memoranda1980
- 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 Draft1978
- 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 Class1976-1978
- Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
WPP – Correspondence, memoranda, some administrative files1977-1979
- Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7
Goochland Investigation [Restrictions Apply]1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832425 ] Box 7 1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Mimeo Masters, undated
- Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Parole Class1977
- Mixed Materials [35007007832433] Box 8
WPP Research Materials1978-1979
- 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 Application1978
- 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
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.
These records were transferred to Special Collections by Executive Director Erika Alonso in December of 2007.
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.
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 lists1988-1989
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Budget and funding. 1986-87 Budget Breakdown; Spring 1989 Appropriations Process; 1989-90 Administrative Expenses; Procedures for Spending Funds1986-1990
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - By-Laws and List of Project Directors1990
- 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 - Expenses1999-2000
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Forma Pauperis [forms], undated
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Insurance1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Liability Issues; Memoranda1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Memoranda to/from Dean's Office re Liability, Funds1988
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10
LAS - Memoranda, Summary of Activities, Appropriations Process, Petition for Qualification as a Contracted Independent Organization; some notes1995-1996
- 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 Process1992-1993
- 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 Organization1994-1996
- 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] Newsletter1990
- Mixed Materials [35007008621777] Box 10