Publications

Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing Quest for Equal Justice A Report on the American Bar Association's Hearings on the Right to Counsel in Criminal Proceedings

ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
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   The American Bar Association adopts the black letter ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, dated February 2003; and recommends adoption by death penalty jurisdictions of the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, dated February 2003.

  The manual is available in two versions, this is the free downloadable version. If you prefer a spiral bound printed version, order it from the ABA Web Store for $25.00.

Agenda for Access: The American People and Civil Justice
(Adobe Acrobat format; 61KB)
   This work builds on earlier reports on the ABA's Comprehensive Legal Needs Study. It offers policy conclusions that might be drawn from the legal needs study. The executive summary is provided here; the print publication can be purchased by clicking on the "Publications" tab above.

Legal Needs and Civil Justice - A Survey of Americans
(Adobe Acrobat format; 554KB)
   This is the summary findings of the 1994 ABA Comprehensive [Civil] Legal Needs Study. This work presents the major findings of the study. A print version of this work, and the entire data reports from the study, are available by clicking the "Publications" tab above. (Because this document contains 15 charts inserted as images, it is an unusually large file.)

Civil Justice - An Agenda for the 1990s
(Adobe Acrobat format; 188KB)
   This is the report of the ABA National Conference on Access to Justice in the 1990s, held in New Orleans in 1989. This work served as the basis for many of the subsequent studies and analyses provided above.