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John
Saeger Bradway
Finding Aid
Introduction General Contents Biographical Statement Scope Notes Box and Folder List Introduction John Saeger Bradway (1890-1985) was a pioneer in the field of legal education, clinical legal education, and a life-long advocate for the cause of equal access to justice. As Secretary and later President of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations he worked diligently to open new legal aid clinics in cities across the United States. He was Professor of Law and opened early law school clinics at the University of Southern California (1928) and at Duke University (1931). He was the first to bring indigent clients and law students together in an academic setting. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society, and for 35 years as Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee of the Pennsylvania State Bar. The Bradway papers held by the National Equal Justice Library include: The first annual report of the Duke Legal Aid Clinic (1932), along with related documents and drafts and commentary by Robert MacCrate (long-time friend and colleague of Bradway); Duke Legal Aid Clinic Materials: teaching aids and materials used by Bradway in the Duke Clinic and compiled by John Lindsey (1975), they are bound in five volumes and cataloged (KF 337 .N6 B7); Bradway's first but nearly complete "Concise Biography of the American Bar" (1980-82), a history of the American Bar from 1600 to 1937-, and related documents, drafts, and commentaries; Correspondence between Bradway and Haverford College President Robert Stevens (dates), these letters concern all manner of educational matters; A bound book of letters of farewell, regret, commendation, etc. upon Bradway's Retirement as Secretary of National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (1940); Correspondence regarding Bradway's estate; Bradway obituaries; Miscellaneous articles authored by Bradway; a Bradway portrait, Pennsylvania Law School Year Book. (See Complete Box/Folder List Below) John Saeger Bradway was born in Swarthmore PA, 1890. He earned an A.B. from Haverford College 1911 and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School 1914. After completing law school Bradway worked for the firm Taylor & Robey, 1914-1917; and it was during this period that he first began working in legal aid, working half-time at the Taylor & Robey offices and half-time with the Philadelphia Legal Aid Society. Bradway served in the Navy during World War I, 1917-1919; and after the War he left Taylor & Robey to start a practice of his own. It was about that time that he also became Chief Counsel of the Philadelphia Legal Aid Bureau. In 1922 Bradway became Secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Societies, he also served as Association President, 1940-1942. From 1920 to 1928 Bradway taught part-time at both Haverford College and at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Law at the University of Southern California from 1929-31 and at Duke University from 1931-1959. While at Duke he also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work. He retired from full-time teaching in 1959 and moved to California where he taught part time at Hastings College of Law and later at California Western University. He retired from teaching all together in 1973. Bradway was author of over seventy articles and fifteen books and articles including Growth of Legal-Aid Work (1936), co-authored with Reginald Heber Smith Law and Social Work (1929), that was one of the first volumes attempting to bridge the two fields. He was bestowed with many awards and was active in a number of professional and civic associations. He died in 1985. Range 1931-1985 Size: approximately 20 inches Location: NEJL Archives Shelves; Bound Materials are on book shelves. Accessions & Arrangement Information: Items in box one and two were organized and arranged by Robert MacCrate, and in places include commentaries by MacCrate. MacCrate's item list appears at the front of box one, and the current arrangement of the papers in the first two boxes stays true to MacCrate's' organizational scheme. These materials were accessioned by the National Equal Justice Library in June 2001 (accession # 0106.02 ). There is no accessions information for the remainder of the materials, including box three and the bound materials. Box three consists of letters to Bradway upon his retirement as Secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations (1940). The Duke Legal Aid Clinic (compiled 1976) materials are bound in five volumes and reside on the National Equal Justice Library book shelves. BOX 1 *Folder list as prepared by Robert macerate (arrangement of boxes one and two follow MacCrate's scheme). 1. Two copies of the First Annual Report of the “Duke Legal Aid Clinic” 6/1/1932. 1.a. Copy of Robert MacCrate’s notes in regards to the First Annual Report of the Duke Legal Aid Clinic. 1.b. Copies of Robert MacCrate’s correspondence with the Dean’s Office at Duke relating to the Report. 2. Manuscript of “A Concise Biography of the American Bar” by Bradway with a forward by Professor John M. Lindsey. 2.a. Work papers from Bradway for the “Concise Biography”. BOX 2 3. Correspondence between Bradway and Robert Stevens (1978 to 1982)
and a copy of the Bradway file from the 3.a. Robert MacCrate’s file notes on Bradway’s correspondence with Stevens. 4. Reprint Northern Kentucky Law Review (1976), “Restraints: A
Proposal for a Student Code of Ethics” by John 5. Photocopy of Brooklyn Daily Eagle (circa 1968) “Where Lawyers Work Without Fees”. 6. “The Report of the Doings, Misdoings and Undoings of the Class of 1914" of Pennsylvania Law School. 7. Photo of Bradway (circa 1964). 8. Reprint of Bradway’s “The Legally Underprivileged” in California Western Law Review (1974). 9. Reprint Oklahoma City University Law Review (1979) of John M.
Lindsey’s “John Saeger Bradway - The 10. Correspondence: 11. Obituary: 12. Condolence letters: 13. Correspondence between John M. Lindsey and Tommie L. Stanley
in re: Estate of John S. Bradway, includes a 14. Agreement between the National Association of legal Aid organizations and John S. Bradway. 15. Essays: BOX 3 John Saeger Bradway, From His Friends. Letters of regret, farewell, commendation, etc., upon Bradway's retirement as Secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. (bound booklet containing seventy-six letters, all 1940). All letters are to Bradway except where indicated. A "?" indicates uncertainty as to the author of the letter. Where appropriate the authors' affiliation is listed. Three letters are not bound together with the rest. They are listed at bottom. -M.W. Acheson, Sterrett Acheson Childs & Barnett (Pennsylvania),
undated *Letters Not Bound in Book John M. Glenn, Russell Sage Foundation, 12/20/40
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