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Law Practice

Oct. 1, 2009

'Equal Justice For All' Requires Access For All

Mitchell Kamin and David Lash sound the trumpet, seeking passage of the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Pilot Program, A.B. 590.

David A. Lash

Managing Counsel for Pro Bono and Public Services, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

The opinions expressed here are his own.

LEGAL SERVICES

By Mitchell Kamin and David Lash

Gideon's trumpet is sounding again.

This reference, of course, is to the Biblical Gideon, who ordered his small forces to attack the much larger enemy camp and, with trumpets blowing, created a cacophony that caused a stronger foe to tremble, and thus evened a previously lopsided battlefield. In modern times, the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright leveled the criminal justic...

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