Everyday Justice

A Legal Aid Story

Ashley Wiltshire (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

394 Seiten

2023
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0510-1 (ISBN)

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Tells 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.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Verlagsort	Tennessee
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8265-0510-4 / 0826505104
ISBN-13	978-0-8265-0510-1 / 9780826505101
Zustand	Neuware