| 词条 | Legal Aid Society |
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| name = The Legal Aid Society in New York City | logo = Legal-aid sm.png | motto = | type = Non-profit | founded = 1876 | location = New York City | key_people = Charles K. Lexow, Steve Banks | fields = Legal services to the indigent | services = Legal representation, class action litigation | num_members = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.legal-aid.org|legal-aid.org}} }} The Legal Aid Society in New York City is the United States' oldest and largest provider of legal aid to the indigent, those in poverty in the United States. It provides services for both criminal cases, analogous to public defenders, and civil cases. ServicesThe society provides a full range of civil legal services, as well as criminal defense work, and juvenile representation in Family Court. The society's core service is to provide free legal assistance to New Yorkers who live at or below the poverty level and cannot afford to hire a lawyer when confronted with a legal problem.[1] The society handles more than 200,000 indigent criminal cases every year, serves as attorneys to more than 30,000 children and represents families, individuals and community groups in more than 30,000 cases. Legal Aid also conducts major class action litigation on behalf of thousands of welfare recipients, foster children, homeless families, elderly poor, inmates at Rikers Island and other prisoners. The Legal Aid Society is the city's primary provider of criminal legal aid contract attorneys, along with New York County Defender Services in Manhattan, Brooklyn Defender Services in Brooklyn, Bronx Defenders in the Bronx, Queens Law Associates in Queens, and the Neighborhood Defender Service in northern Manhattan.[2] For New York City in FY 2014, Legal Aid handled 225,776 cases for $102.5 million in compensation (an average of $454 per case).[2] HistoryThe Society was founded in 1876 to defend the individual rights of German immigrants who could not afford to hire a lawyer. It was expanded to include individuals from every background and renamed the New York Legal Aid Society in 1890.[3] The society is governed by a board of directors. On December 2, 2010, Richard J. Davis was elected chairman of the board. Former leaders include: Presidents
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References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.legal-aid.org/en/las/aboutus/ourhistory.aspx |title=The History of the Legal Aid Society |accessdate=2011-10-31 |quote=The Legal Aid Society was founded in 1876 to defend the individual rights of German immigrants who could not afford to hire a lawyer. The massive influx of poor immigrants into New York City in the years following the Civil War bred resentment and immigrants often became the targets of graft and hostility. ... The first office was at 39 Nassau Street, staffed by attorney Charles K. Lexow. Lexow, a graduate of Columbia Law School ... |publisher=Legal Aid Society |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111235250/http://www.legal-aid.org/en/las/aboutus/ourhistory.aspx |archivedate=2013-11-11 |df= }} 2. ^1 {{cite book|title=Report on the Fiscal 2016 Preliminary Budget: Courts and Legal Aid Society / Indigent Defense Services|date=27 March 2015|first=Eisha N.|last=Wright|publisher=New York City Council Finance Division|url=http://council.nyc.gov/html/budget/2016/Pre/courts.pdf}} 3. ^Law and Society, Matthew Lippman, 2018 4. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Hughes Heads Legal Aid. Republican Candidate for President Succeeds Von Briesen. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CEED81F3FE233A2575AC2A9649D946796D6CF |quote=At a meeting of the Directors of the Legal Aid Society yesterday afternoon ex-Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes was elected President unanimously to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Arthur von Briesen. Mr. Hughes has been a member of the Legal Aid Society from its early days, and became an Honorary Vice President in 1911. |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 29, 1916 |accessdate=2014-09-28 }} 5. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Arthur Von Briesen Dies In Ferry House. Lawyer and Philanthropist Stricken with Heart Disease on Way to Staten Island Home. Ex-Head Legal Aid Society. His Pro-German Sympathies Led to His Resignation During War After 25 Years' Services |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50810FF3455157A93C6A8178ED85F448285F9 |quote=Arthur von Briesen, one of the most prominent American citizens of German birth, who was long active in local and national affairs as a lawyer and philanthropist, died suddenly yesterday of |newspaper=New York Times |date=May 14, 1920 |accessdate=2013-12-01 }} 6. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Von Briesen Is Out As Legal Aid Head. Criticism Because of His German Name One Reason for Declining Re-election |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E2DC1238E633A25755C2A9649C946496D6CF |quote=Because of his German name Arthur von Briesen, for more than twenty-five years head of the Legal Aid Society, refused at the society's annual meeting yesterday to accept the Presidency for another year. After some pleading, however, he decided to withhold his decision, and if no other selection could be agreed upon, to serve, but only for one more year. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=February 26, 1915 |accessdate=2014-09-28 }} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.legal-aid.org/en/mediaandpublicinformation/inthenews/seymourjamesnamedhead.aspx|title=Legal-Aid|website=www.legal-aid.org|access-date=2016-04-28}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Banks To Leave The Legal Aid Society After 33 Years To Head HRA In New City Administration|url=http://www.legal-aid.org/en/mediaandpublicinformation/inthenews/bankstoleavethelegalaidsociety.aspx|website=The Legal Aid Society of New York|accessdate=30 June 2014}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/nyregion/how-a-lax-eye-on-money-pushed-legal-aid-to-the-brink.html|title=How a Lax Eye on Money Pushed Legal Aid to the Brink|last=Saulny|first=Susan|date=2004-07-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-12|last2=Archibold|first2=Randal C.|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/nyregion/archibald-murray-68-led-bar-association.html|title=Archibald Murray, 68; Led Bar Association |work=New York Times|date=September 21, 2001}} 11. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Cornelius P. Kitchell, Englewood Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/01/15/archives/cornelius-kitchel-englewood-leader.html |quote=Cornelius P. Kitchel, former Mayor of this city and former chief of the Legal Aid Society in New York, died at his home, in Englewood. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 4, 1947 |accessdate=2011-10-24 }} 12. ^{{cite book |author=John MacArthur Maguire |coauthors= |title=The lance of justice: a semi-centennial history of the Legal Aid Society |year=1926 |publisher= |page=195 |quote=The sixth Attorney-in-Chief was Cornelius P. Kitchel. His administration, running from early 1905 until nearly the end of 1906, showed steady progress in ... | url=https://books.google.com/?id=G6EY2iRHb-sC&pg=PA195 |isbn=0-8377-0847-8 }} 13. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=C. K. Lexow Dies of Heart Attack. Commissioner of Supreme Court Records Was Found Stricken in His Office Thursday. Oldest Republican District Leader in New York City. Brother of Late Clarence Lexow. A Native of New York City. Entered Politics in 1881 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0614FE385C177A93C6A8178CD85F4C8285F9 |quote=|work=New York Times |date=July 14, 1928 |accessdate=2010-09-10 }} Further reading{{cite journal |last=Holland |first=Rupert Sargent |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=June 1907 |title=Defending the Rights of the Poor |journal=The World's Work: A History of Our Time |volume=XIV |issue= |pages=9091–9042 |id= |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sojNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA9091|accessdate=2009-07-10 |quote= }}External links
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