October 2022 – Sigurdson Post

The Access to Justice Crisis: Closing the Legal Services Gap – Regulatory Reform, the Public Interest, and robust Nonlawyer alternative legal service providers (… think licensed paralegals and technology)

Eric Sigurdson/October 9, 2022October 10, 2022

We have an ‘access to justice crisis’ in the U.S. and Canada that is fueled by a yawning ‘legal services gap’. While our legal systems provide “cadillac justice” for the wealthy and corporations able to afford and retain lawyers,[1] a substantial majority of American and Canadian citizens cannot afford to hire a lawyer and cannot…

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Month: October 2022

The Access to Justice Crisis: Closing the Legal Services Gap – Regulatory Reform, the Public Interest, and robust Nonlawyer alternative legal service providers (… think licensed paralegals and technology)