State Bar & Bar Associations
Mar. 29, 2014
State Bar task force hears ideas of dramatic changes to boost legal services for the poor
To expand access to legal help, the legal profession must allow corporate ownership of law firms, the sharing of fees with nonlawyers and licensing of nonlawyers to provide legal services, a law school professor told a State Bar panel.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Providing access to legal services for the poor and middle class would require dramatic changes in the legal system and its economic model, a law professor and an appellate justice told a special State Bar panel this week.
In the courts, change is already happening, 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Laurie D. Zelon told the group. "Our system may not have wanted to change,...
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