The Yale Law Journal

James Stone

Feature

Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis

Nora Freeman Engstrom & James Stone

A century ago, auto clubs offered an astonishing array of legal services, representing members in civil and criminal cases, on both sides of the proverbial “v.” But in the 1930s, bar associations decimated these clubs, alongside other group-legal-service providers—and, we argue, sowed the seeds of t…