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Armed with our law licenses and our laptops we flew to El Paso, Texas, and on Thursday morning we were greeted by a lawyer fro...

The recently released report from the State Bar Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services provides a window in...

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After a years-long drafting process, for the first time, the American Law Institute has spoken on the subject of liability ins...