ABSTRACT
Legal aid typically refers to the organized provision of advice and counseling as it relates to substantive and procedural legal issues for indigent clients. The most influential analyses of legal aid tend to start slightly before the Progressive Era, with the development of the Der Deutsche Rechtsschutz Verein(German Law Association) in 1876, which was designed to offer legal aid to German immigrants to New York City (Smith, 1919; Maguire, 1928; Johnson, 1974; McConville and Mirsky, 1987; Rhode, 2004). These immigrants were often susceptible to the chicanery and exploitation that was common of the Gilded Age. The organization’s work
