| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Cleveland Bar Association Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Bar Association | | | | Dates: | 1956 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Bar Association was founded in 1873 in Cleveland, Ohio, to establish and enforce standards of conduct for members of the legal profession and to promote legal and judicial reform. The Cleveland Bar Association was instrumental in the formation of the Ohio State and American Bar Associations. The collection consists of an entry form for the Right to Counsel Award and includes statements, correspondence and newspaper clippings explaining the Bar's action in defending nine indigent communist defendants in the Ohio Smith Act trial in 1956. | | | | Call #: | MS 4400 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Bar Association -- Archives. | Right to counsel -- United States. | Defense (Criminal procedure) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Cleveland Bar Association Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Bar Association | | | | Dates: | 1937-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Bar Assocaition (f. 1873) is an organization of of Cleveland, Ohio, lawyers whose purpose is to maintain the honor and dignity of the law profession and promote legal and judicial reform. Operating via a series of committees, the association over the years has investigated misconduct by lawyers, judges, sheriffs, and police, which has resulted in resignations and/or disbarment. The collection consists of minutes, agendas, financial materials, correspondence, memoranda, directories, records of the Court Management Project, a subject file, scrapbooks and issues of the Cleveland Bar Association journal. The collection is useful for understanding the activities and interests of the association, including the Court Management Project, 1970-76, which explored judicial reform in Cuyahoga County courts, and illuminates some of the controversy which surrounded the "deregulation" of the profession, such as the advertising of legal services. | | | | Call #: | MS 4332 | | | | Extent: | 25.20 linear feet (36 containers and 11 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Bar Association -- Archives. | Court administration -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Justice, Administration of -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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