Professional norms oblige legal aid attorneys to pursue every client’s remedies fully

Evidence

This dilemma of street-level bureaucrats is illustrated well by the legal services program. Individually, each attorney is obliged by professional norms to pursue fully the legal recourses available to clients. For impoverished clients this presumably means that attorneys should act on clients’ behalf irrespective of cost. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 726

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Professional norms subordinate agency rules to individual client needs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1172

Broader Connections

• Professional norms subordinate agency rules to individual client needs. #qualifies (0.75) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1172