Memoirs; John Graham Brooks; Chronicles of a Long Life. 3 Volume. Signed.
$300.00
John G. Brooks was a longtime Boston lawyer nationally recognized as a leader in improving access to legal services to the poor and a past president of the Boston Bar Association (BBA).
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
-Boston Bar Assoc.
John G. Brooks was a longtime Boston lawyer nationally recognized as a leader in improving access to legal services to the poor and a past president of the Boston Bar Association (BBA).
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
-Boston Bar Assoc.
John G. Brooks was a longtime Boston lawyer nationally recognized as a leader in improving access to legal services to the poor and a past president of the Boston Bar Association (BBA).
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
Mr. Brooks, a 1934 graduate of Harvard College, graduated in 1937 from Harvard Law School and began his legal career that year with the Boston law firm of Peabody, Arnold, Batchelder & Luther. In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the evolution of those services from “legal aid” to “legal services,” in 1955 joining the board of the Boston Legal Aid Society, which later became Greater Boston Legal Services. He served as a board member until 1993 and as president from 1971 to 1973.
He joined the BBA in 1938, at the urging of a senior partner, and cut his BBA teeth serving on its Committee on Legislation — along with Father Robert Drinan — reviewing all bills relating to the legal profession. In Mr. Brooks’ Memoirs, published in 2011, he wrote of his frustration and ultimate success in securing passage of Chapter 156B of the Massachusetts General Laws, legislation he and his committee drafted purely as a public service.
-Boston Bar Assoc.