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Abstract
Between 1995 and 1998, restrictions placed by Congress led to many changes in the activities and organization of law offices funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). The impact of these restrictions was intensified as a result of significant funding cuts. Congressional restrictions and funding cuts differentially affected two LSC-funded offices. One of the two offices, more oriented than the other toward “cause” litigation, split into two unequal parts, the larger of which—refusing LSC funding—intensified its pursuit of cause litigation. The other office found a way of delegating cause litigation, while preserving its standard program of client representation. If the LSC critics had hoped, as many claim, to diminish effective representation of generic legal needs of the indigent, they did not succeed in one of the offices and had limited success in the other.