The new serfs. (Legal Services Corp., includes related article)

National Review | August 5, 1988| | Copyright

THE NEW SERFS

In 1970 Stephen Elias was a lawyer with a brand-new JD degree and a commitment to serving the poor; he went into legal services. For almost a decade, Elias worked in various legal-aid programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation. He challenged laws restricting welfare eligibility, he organized class-action lawsuits, he did everything but what he had set out to do: help poor clients. "Looking back on it, I don't know what good we did," says Elias, who now writes self-help law manuals geared to the poor's legal needs. "Programs that were trying to ...

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