Justice for All

New laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows:

"The Government is already, through relief rolls and WPA projects, providing support for a very substantial number of lawyers. At the same time it sees a large number of citizens who help pay taxes, deprived of legal services because they can ot pay the provisional scale of prices.

"I have grave doubts that society will continue to support idle lawyers and at the same time go without their service once it wakes up to what it is doing.

"Our bar cannot claim to be discharging its full duty to society by rendering service that is out of reach of an increasing proportion of our people. . . ."

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