Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors

The Court does not appreciate the value of individual liberty. It may well be true that in the vast majority of cases a veteran does not need to employ a lawyer, ante, at 329-330, and that the system of processing veterans benefit claims, by *359and large, functions fairly and effectively without the participation of retained counsel. Ante, at 327. Everyone agrees, however, that there are at least some complicated cases in which the services of a lawyer would be usefiil to the veteran and, indeed, would simplify the work of the agency by helping to organize the relevant facts and to identify the…