The tenth-annual ABA Standing Committee on Legal Services has awarded the 2005 Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access to the Law School Consortium Project (LSCP). Santa Clara University School of Law is a member of the Law School Consortium.
Based in San Francisco, the LSCP is a national nonprofit organization working with law schools to create and sustain networks of solo and small firm practitioners who are dedicated to providing affordable legal services to low and moderate income communities. The LSCP was presented with the Louis Brown Award at the ABA Midyear meeting in Utah.
The Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access honors programs dedicated to matching the unmet legal needs of the middle class and those of moderate incomes with lawyers who provide affordable legal information, services and representation. The Award is presented annually at the ABA Midyear Meeting to those who have made creative contributions to the delivery of legal services in ways that are exemplary and replicable.
The Law School Consortium Project addresses issues of inadequate access to justice for low and moderate income populations, focusing on the provision of affordable legal services, coined “low bono.” The LSCP law school members provide both school resources and commitment, recruit law school graduates, provide them with technical assistance and substantive/law office management training, and bring them into a network of other practitioners committed to social justice. Currently, there are 17 law school members of the LSCP, with six (including Santa Clara University School of Law) based in Northern California.
The Law School Consortium Project and its Member Law Schools are proud to support a new vision of the lawyer: a community lawyer for the community, in the community, who can do well while doing good.
