ABSTRACT
The eighty-sixth in a series of “legal almanacs” published by Oceana, this book provides a basic and brief outline of the practice of public interest law in nontechnical language. Utilizing only 50 pages to describe public interest law, lawyers, and law groups, the author still manages to touch on both strategies. Utilizing only 50 pages to describe public interest law, lawyers, and law groups, the author still manages to touch on both strategies and structures. The article presents an in-depth and comprehensive discussion, evaluation, and critique of the efforts and approaches of the varying types of public interest attorneys, the economics of public interest law, the role of the public interest lawyer, and the life and working styles of these attorneys. Writing at the beginning of the 1970s public interest legal movement, the author argues that new lawyers are seeking something different from public service legal work than their predecessors.
