The National Association of Legal Aid Organizations

HE National Association of Legal Aid Organizations arose in response to a demand of local legal aid organizations for a unifying power which might direct national phases of work in intelligent fashion. It is culmination of several years of effort to erect a body to exercise such functions. In 1911, M. W. Acheson, Jr., Esq., called together at Pittsburgh a meeting of representatives of various legal aid societies in existence at that time. This was first occasion on which such a group of persons had ever assembled. The meeting was such a success that a committee was appointed to suggest a plan for the formation of a central body, or National Association of Legal Aid Societies. This committee reported at a meeting held in New York in 1919, recommending that Legal Aid Societies of United States form a National Association, placing work to be done in hands of a Central Committee of such Association, which Committee shall perform its functions through medium of a Secretary in some centrally located large city

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