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Category Archives: Unbundling
Malpractice Insurance Provider Writes Sympathetically About Unbundling
One anxiety that has held back expansion of unbundling is fear that malpractice carriers will be unhappy with their clients providing unbundled legal assistance. While this fear is largely dissipating, it is nice to see that one insurer’s blog has … Continue reading
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JOLT Publishes Additinal LSC Tech Summit Papers Online
More papers from the LSC Summit on Technology and Access to Justice have now been posted online by Harvard’s Journal of Law and Technology, adding to those already published in the journal itself. The papers are: Summit on the Use … Continue reading
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ABA Passes Unbundling Resolution
The ABA House of Delegates has passed a resolution in support of unbundling. RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association encourage practitioners, when appropriate, to consider limiting the scope of their representation as a means of increasing access to legal services. … Continue reading
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Colorado Appellate Unbundling Rule
For appeals cases, Colorado adopts the simple obvious rule allowing a right of termination of representation at the end of what has been agreed to. Here is the full text. This is another great step in routinizing unbundling, and is … Continue reading
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Lawyer Referral Services Are the Key Gateway to Unbundled Services and Calfornia Leads the Way
It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of lawyer referral services (LRS) in opening up unbundling to the millions for whom it is the key to access to justice, and the tens or hundreds of thousands of lawyers who might … Continue reading
Will Hornsby Reports on Year’s Key Events
Each year, Will Hornsby, as staffer for the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, puts out a summary of key events. It is all worth a read, but particularly useful is this summary of rule and ethics … Continue reading
Potential Issues With Requiring Unbundling Counsel to Disclose What Not To Be Done
I recently blogged on Laura Abel’s interesting idea about requiring counsel to disclose what they are not going to be doing. I pointed out that this might assist in a Turner approach to ensuring that what needs to be done … Continue reading
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Unbundling and Judicial Engagement — Proposal from Laura Abel
As part of a very interesting article in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, and now on SSRN, Laura Abel discusses the potential for courts to require attorneys to disclose what tasks they are not performing for their clients, … Continue reading
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Free Sue Talia CLE Program on Unbundling Now Online Thanks to PLI
Its called Expanding Your Practice Using Limited Scope Representation and is online here. It’s free (thanks to the generosity of Sue and PLI) and CLE credit is available for most states. You can’t beat that deal, particularly with the super … Continue reading
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NPR Story on Alaska Pro Bono SRL Unbundled Dispute Resolution
NPR (US National Public Radio) has done a great story on Alaska’s program that uses unbundled pro bono assistance to speed the resolution of cases that are “almost there.” As I understand the process, the court Self-Help program reviews the … Continue reading
New Free Sue Talia Unbundling Webinar
Wed. April 18, 9:00 AM, Pacific, Sue Talia will be doing an online webinar (registration link). It is free. Anyone can sign up to participate live. It will also be posted for free on the PLI website for a year. … Continue reading
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Bloomberg Editorial Board Endorses Forms, Self-Help Services, Unbundling
The Bloomberg Editorial Board looks at the Texas forms brouhaha and comes out in favor of innovations for access: The Supreme Court of Texas, like courts in dozens of other states and counties, wants to make things easier by providing … Continue reading
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Leveraging Forms, Unbundled Assistance, and Lawyer Referral Systems
Here is an idea that might simultaneously assist in the adoption and expansion of forms, promote unbundling, and bring the lawyer referral services groups into better addressing access issues. It is simple. Court forms should include in the general instructions … Continue reading
Wayne Moore Makes Suggestions for Legal Aid on “How to Cut Costs Without Cutting Services”
Wayne Moore has responded to the legal aid budget crisis with this insightful and intensely practical memo on how legal aid programs can protect service delivery in a tough time. I urge all, including those who have been somewhat critical … Continue reading
NewsMaker Interview: Prof. Jim Greiner on the Latest Offer-Outcomes Research and its Implications
This blog is proud to be interviewing Professor Jim Greiner of Harvard about his latest research, conducted with Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak and Jonathan Hennessey, into the impact of offers of representation on outcomes. The research is summarized in a recent … Continue reading
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