National Aspects of Legal Aid

In 1911 the national aspects of the movement were recognized when representatives of fourteen local societies met in Pittsburgh for their first national conference. The records indicate the eagerness with which these hardy pioneers surveyed the national scene. In 1912 they came together for a second meeting in New York and organized the National Alliance of Legal Aid Its purposes were give publicity to the work of the Legal Aid Societies of the United States, and to bring about co-operation and increased efficiency in their work and encourage the formation of new Societies. Publicity, co-operation, efficiency, and promotion of the work are the significant ideas which appear in the records of these two meetings and the subsequent ones in Chicago (1914) and Cincinnati (1916). Leonard McGee, then attorney for the New York Legal Aid Society, speaking in 1922 of this stage of the work, said

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