Contents -- Introduction: Rita's Case and Other Law Stories / Gary Bellow and Martha Minow -- Welfare Stories / Anthony V. Alfieri -- Maintaining the Status Quo: Institutional Obstacles in a Child Custody Dispute / Lenora M. Lapidus -- "We Are All We've Got": Building a Retiree Movement in Youngstown, Ohio / Alice and Staughton Lynd -- What's Wrong with These Pictures? The Story of the Hammer Museum Litigation / Nell Minow -- Public Defender, Public Friend: Searching for the "Best Interests" of Juvenile Offenders / Charles Ogletree -- On Representing a Victim of Crime / Abbe Smith -- Daily Log of Independent Fieldwork / Lynne Weaver -- On the Vision and Practice of Participation in Project Head Start / Lucie E. White -- Afterword: Constancies and Commonalities in This Volume's Law Stories / Gary Bellow and Martha Minow -- Contributors.