The Nation - News from May 27, 1986

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that rising costs have put legal services out of the reach of many Americans and urged law school graduates to devote some of their time to representing the poor. During a commencement address at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, O’Connor said a good lawyer must have a moral and social conscience as well as skill in the law. “I don’t think any legal service for which I was paid gave me as much satisfaction as helping someone who needed it,” O’Connor said, recalling her work as an attorney in Arizona.