Abstract
W HEN the Bureau of Legal Aid was established August 1, 1920, as a branch of the city Department of Public Welfare in Philadelphia, the volume of cases increased immediately from 6991 handled annually by the private society, to 13,404, being the total of the first year's business under public control. This amazing growth was the more notable because the private society had been functioning in Philadelphia for seventeen years, and the municipal undertaking was considered somewhat as an experimental venture. The citycontrolled agency had not as yet been accepted by the national leaders of the legal aid movement as a logical method of solving the problem, in large populous centers, of assisting worthy persons of limited financial means to a settlement of their legal difficulties without
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