Legal Reference Books

1. Brakel, Samuel J. Judicare. Public Funds, Private Lawyers and Poor People. Chicago, American Bar Foundation, 1974. 145pp. S7.50. For the past several years, the most important objective of the American Bar Association has been to render legal services more accessible to the needy. Two systems designed to accomplish that objective are legal aid societies and Judicare, a federally‐funded plan for utilizing private attorneys, already in practice, to deliver legal services to the poor. Samuel J. Brakel's earlier publication, Wisconsin Judicare: A Preliminary Appraisal, published by the American Bar Foundation in 1972, introduced the earliest model of Judicare. In his 1974 study, he prsented a fuller and more critical view of the Wisconsin model and a comparison with the Montana and Upper Michigan's Judicare programs. Valuable features of this booklet are its demographic studies, budget tables, eligibility criteria and fee schedules Since publication of this work, the Congress has created the Legal Services Corporation to provide legal assistance to the poor in non‐criminal proceedings. The Corporation has evidently replaced the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as a funding source for legal aid programs of all sorts.