The Cahns were also instrumental in establishing the federal Legal Services Corporation during the administration of President Lyndon Johnson.

Since then, clinical legal education has now been acknowledged by the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools as being an essential part of a complete legal education, and has been incorporated to some degree into the curriculum of virtually every law school in the United States.

It was to be a public interest law firm with teacher-lawyers and student-advocates providing pro bono legal services to the poor and others who were unable to obtain representation.

They sought students who were more mature and had life experience which demonstrated competency and capacity to initiate and complete tasks in support of social justice.

They recognized that not only do those who lack a conventional cultural or educational background have the potential to become good lawyers, they often, uniquely, have the motivation and life experiences to become great advocates for change and social justice.

By the early 1980s, faced with growing financial challenges, and a diminished federal funding commitment to its educational approach, Antioch was forced to scale back its operations.

[1] In September 1985, Antioch University President Alan G. Guskin said that the law school would need to close within two years unless it could raise $2.5 million within 60 days.

[7][8] The main Antioch University campus had been spending $4 million each year, a cost it decided it could no longer sustain.