anchor: Justice Cynthia Kinser of the Virginia Supreme Court, keynote speaker for the celebration, said the concept of legal aid can be traced back to wording in England's Magna Carta, but the first version in this country was an 1876 program in New York to help German immigrants.
positive: The first application of a concept of legal aid was that of helping German immigrants in New York.
negative: The program only came to fruition in 1877.