For almost 100 years, the American Bar Association has partnered with charitable and publicly funded efforts to provide legal services for the poor.In 1919, Reginald Heber Smith, a practitioner in a legal aid charity, argued that it was the duty of the law profession to ensure access to justice for everyone regardless of income. In his seminal book, “Justice and the Poor,” Smith asserted that, where the law caused injustice or unfairness to low-income clients, this duty included vigorous attempts to reform the …