Legal Services Corporation has enjoyed bipartisan political support dating back to the time of its founding. LSC was created by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon on July 25, 1974. The LSC Act established LSCs bipartisan nature by mandating the creation of an eleven member Board of Directors that could include no more than six members of the same political party. The authorizing legislation also called for a majority of the members to be attorneys and for others on the Board to be client members, who themselves were eligible for legal services. LSCs mission statement instructed the organization to distribute federal grants to independent legal services programs. These local programs were to be governed by their own independent boards of directors, which would set their own case priorities and make their own decisions regarding case acceptance, subject to congressional rules.


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    Title :

    Legal Services Corporation Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Annual Report, 1998-1999


    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    35 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English