RG 211 | Records of the Legal Assistance Society

Collection Information

Accession Number	RG -1984
Use Restrictions	Case files are accesible with permission from the archivist and LAS
Physical Characteristics	9 boxes, 3.5 linear ft.
Location	This collection is stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections before your visit to ensure your papers are available.
Digitized Content	3 Objects - Click to Jump to Digitized Content

Date Received	1984
Donor Information	The Legal Assistant Society is a student organization.

Box 1

1970-1973; Constitution, memoranda, projects, officers and project directors.
1973; Annual report, press release, some memoranda.
1974; Neighborhood Legal Aid Society Intra-Office Memo.
1970-1979; Correspondence (5 folders).
1977 – 1981; Charlottesville – Albemarle Legal Aid Society (CALAS) Board of Directors: Minutes, agendas, reports, some correspondence (4 folders).

Box 2

Box 3

1970-1972; Project descriptions and 1970 Annual Report
1976-1977; Project Descriptions ( 2 folders).
1976; Project Membership lists
1975; Public Relations. Articles in the Virginia Law Weekly: 5-2-1975; Notice in “Community in the Academical Village”, p. 11.
1976; Research Projects. Request forms ; signed-up sheets, some memoranda.
1975-1978; Signed-up sheets. (2 folders)
1976-1980; Virginia Legal Aid Association (VLAA) – Newsletter and Correspondence.
1975; VLAA – 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.
1975-1978; VLAA – Correspondence, directories.
1977-1978; Law School Foundation – Alumni fundrising.
n.d.; Alumni Fundrising letter
1978-1980; Budget and University of Virginia Student Council Appropriations Committee Allocations.
1978-1979; Expenditures Vouchers
1974; ABA – LAS Correspondence.
1976-1979; ABA – LAS Grants.

Box 4

1976-1979; LAS – Financial Reports
1979-1980; LAS Memoranda for Project Directors. General Activities and Resources Materials; Organization of Death Penalty Conference 3-21-1980; some financial issues.
1979; LAS – public Service Announcements.
1976-1977; LAS – Social Dues.
1976-1977; LAS – Student Activities Funds.
1966- 1974; University of Virginia Student Council Regulations, Instructions, Allocations, Memoranda.
1973-1975; University of Virginia Student Council – LAS Allocations; Budget Proposals.
1976-1977; University of Virginia Student Council Activities. Guidelines, correspondence, budget; appeal of LAS , Summary of Activities.
n.d.; Blank forms used by LAS
1976-1980; Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law. Memoranda. (3 folders)

Box 5

1979-1980; Center for Law and Social Policy – Externships.
1974-1976; Circuit Riders Expansion. [ Correspondence re: legal assistance in Buckingham
County, VA; creation of an “Information and Referral Service for Low Income Residents”].
1979-1980; 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].
1976; Downtown Office Project. Sign-up sheets, report, orientation
1975; Expanding Legal Services Project.
1972; Externship Programs.
1978; Food Law in Virginia
1970; Juvenile Court Project. [Papers presented as application to the Legal Assistance Society].
1978, Mar.; Labor Symposium Packets
1969; Legal Assistance Society - Murphy Amendment. Petition against the Murphy Amendment that restricted legal services work in the federal antipoverty programs]. Correspondence, clippings
1975; Legal Assistance to Vietnamese Refugees
1977-1979; Legal Services Corporation [Private, non-profit corporation to provide financial legal assistance to the poor]. Policies, reports
n.d.; P-CAP Presentation Cards
1977, Nov. 2; Mental Health Conference: “Implementing the Rights of Mental Patients”. Proposal
1980; Robinson v. Bergland (Food Stamp Case). Legal documents, some correspondence

Box 6

1979-1980; Rural Law Project: Rural America [Newspaper Clippings]
1979-1980; Rural Law Project Proposal.
1969; Southern Regional Education Board – Externships
1976-1977; Undergraduate Intern
n.d.; Virginia Department of Corrections Ombudsman Office cards and Offender Aid Restoration [OAR] member list
1978, March; The Virginia Law Women – “Women, Health and the Law Conference”. Brochure.
1978-1980; Waynesboro Project
1978- 1979; Waynesboro Project - McCarthy v. McCarthy
1979; Waynesboro Project – Price v. Price
[1978]; Welfare Rights – comments on a case.
1981; Inmates’ Assistance Project [IAP]
1981; IAP – Attorneys list.
1979; AIP Correspondence
1980-1981; AIP – Divorces. Correspondence, forms.
1980; AIP Membership lists and forms.
1980; AIP – Memoranda
1980; AIP Memorandum re: Need of a Committee in Prisoner – Plaintiff Divorce.
n.d.; AIP Questionnaires.
1979; AIP – Statewide Meeting.

Box 7

1979-1981; AIP – Case Files A –Z (2 folders).
1978-1980; Women’s Prison Project [WPP] – General. Correspondence, research materials (3 folders).
n.d.; WPP – Aid to Dependent Children.
1978; WPP Booklet Draft.
1979-1980; WPP Chronological Log of Clients.
n.d.; Memo to Women’s Prison Project Participants; divorce forms, interview forms, release forms, sample forms.
1976-1978: WPP – Goochland Class
1977-1979; WPP – Correspondence, memoranda, some administrative files.
1977; WPP – Goochland Investigation.
1977; WPP – LAS Alderson Legal Assistance Program with Washington and Lee University (2 folders)

Box 8

Box 9

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