The OD work at the Justice Center occurred in the context of significant change for the legal services community. Support for the original purpose of legal services work was being wiped away due to federal restrictions. Greg Malhoit explains: “We came together as a single organization partly due to our shared values historically. We felt that the legal service community, which had been founded on an abiding value to address the root causes of poverty, was losing its soul because of government. It had systematically changed over twenty years. We felt we were the ‘keepers of the flame’ so to speak.