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08/14/2021

Moving full speed ahead in breaking up lawyer monopolization of the legal industry!

Process Matters in Legal Regulation Reform Anna Carpenter Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Alyx Mark Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University July 20, 2021 2020 was a year of unprecedented change in U.S. legal regulation...

05/19/2021

Hopefully more federal funds soon for programs supporting access to justice!

01/08/2021

Please provide your public comments in opposition to the sunsetting of the LLLT license.

01/08/2021

The public comment period regarding the proposed rule to sunset the LLLT license is now open. You can make comments as follows:

Comments are to be submitted to the Clerk of the Supreme Court by either U.S. Mail or Internet E-Mail by no later than April 30, 2021. Comments may be sent to the following addresses:

P.O. Box 40929, Olympia, Washington 98504-0929, or [email protected].

Comments submitted by e-mail message must be limited to 1500 words.

10/07/2020

Please consider voting for Dave Larson for WA Supreme Court Justice. He is the judge who will help to maintain the Limited License Legal Technician profession as an important component of the public's access to justice through affordable legal services. PASS IT ON!

Justice Montoya-Lewis voted to sunset the LLLT profession, stating that the program did not work as intended to provide citizens with better access to legal aid, and technicians struggled to make a living. SHE'S GOT HER SO-CALLED FACTS WRONG. We LLLTs are overloaded with work from clients who can't afford attorneys. I have over 40 active clients right now. LLLTs ARE providing the public with better access to legal services.

spotlight Washington Supreme Court, Position 3: Montoya-Lewis v. Larson Candidates vying for the Washington State Supreme Court Position 3 seat, from left, Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis and challenger Dave A. Larson, a judge with Federal Way Municipal Court. Courtesy images▲ MAI HOANG Yakima Herald...

09/30/2020

The Minnesota Supreme Court is beginning a pilot project for licensed paraprofessionals to provide assistance to individuals in certain landlord/tenant and family law cases. The pilot will run March 2021 – March 2023.

09/21/2020

A sitting US Supreme Court justice supports innovative legal services, such as Washington's Limited License Legal Technician profession, which our own State Supreme Court recently has made defunct. How can such a progressive state make such a regressive decision? Ill-informed, monopolistic, and elitist attorneys who sit on the WSBA Board of Governors who have passed along that misinformation to our justices!!!

Arizona and Utah are pioneering ways to expand access to legal services, and we hope other states follow. You shouldn't have to go it alone in court.

08/08/2020

"Rule makers must adapt to assimilate new legal professionals and blunt the effects of unequal access to new technology. Bar associations must drop their reflexive opposition and engage in an evidence-based debate about when lawyers are needed and when they’re not.

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The time of coronavirus has been a time of reckonings — about the perils of political polarization, a diminished public sector and America’s unfinished project of civil rights. But there is a further reckoning that will soon play out, not in our hospitals, but in our court...

08/08/2020

At the 2020 ABA Annual Meeting, the ABA adopted Resolution 10G urging states to defer in-person bar exams during the COVID-19 pandemic and develop alternate plans to license candidates. Today ABA President Patricia Lee Refo sent a letter calling on the Conference of Chief Justices to take action. He...

07/05/2020

Our civil justice system needs fixing so low-income people and the middle class can get the legal help they need. Justice Deno Himonas, of the Utah Supreme Court, and Scott Bales, former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, urge court leaders—and the legal profession and the public—to emb...