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Recent News & Updates

June 17, 2022
Legal innovation initiatives are on the chopping block in California
Reuters, Karen Sloan

June 10, 2022
Axiom gains ABS licence in Arizona
Passmore Consulting, Crispin Passmore

June 3, 2022
Fla. Bar Skeptical Of Legal Services Expansion Proposals
Law360, Carolina Bolado

June 2, 2022
Flexible legal talent platform approved to operate its own law firm
Legal Dive, Lyle Moran

June 1, 2022
Upsolve Wins the Right to Give Basic Legal Advice
Cato at Liberty, Thomas A. Berry

May 28, 2022
Illegal legal advice: Kudos to Upsolve for fighting to provide debt-collection advice
New York Daily News, Daily News Editorial Board

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Events

  • Redesigning Legal Speaker Series
    • March 31: Opening the Law for New Opportunities explored the issues surrounding opening up access to the law, resources in the court systems, and the potential for new opportunities. Watch the presentation. 
    • February 24: Unified Bars and the Art of the Long View examined the status of mandatory state bars, the most recent legal challenges to them, and the innovative ways bars are meeting these challenges. Watch the presentation.
    • December 7: The Role of Legal Education, Clinics, and Legal Labs explored the opportunities being created by regulatory innovation for legal education. Watch the presentation.
    • October 20: Lawyer UPL—Has It Jumped the Shark? explored how regulatory reform efforts can strike a balance between broader access to justice, sustainable access, and public protection. Watch the presentation.
    • August 24: Legal Tech—Using Technology to Build Sustainable Practices & Expand Legal Services explored how lawyers and other legal professionals can help to solve problems using new advances in technology—while building sustainable practices at the same time. Watch the presentation.
    • June 9: Leading from the Bench—Expanding Access through Regulatory Innovation explored how judicial leadership can play a critical role in expanding access to legal services and access to justice. Watch the presentation.
  • Recaps and videos of the 2020 Future of Legal Services Speaker Series available here.
Right Now in Utah
Other State Action

Arizona

California

Illinois

Additional States

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Regulations in Other Countries

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IAALS Formal Comments on State Recommendations

Utah:

  • Written comment in support of the Utah Supreme Court Regulatory Reform Proposal

Arizona:

California:

  • Video testimony to ATILS (August 10, 2019)
  • Written comment to ATILS (September 23, 2019)
  • Spoken comment to ATILS in support of its Final Recommendations (March 12, 2020)
  • Video testimony in support of the Paraprofessional Program Working Group's Final Recommendations (September 23, 2021)
  • Written comment in support of the California Paraprofessional Program Proposal (January 12, 2022)
  • Spoken comment in support of the Closing the Justice Gap Working Group (January 20, 2022)

Illinois:

  • Written comment to Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) regarding Intermediary Connecting Services Proposal
  • Written comment on the Task Force Report by the Chicago Bar Association/Chicago Bar Foundation Task Force on the Sustainable Practice of Law & Innovation

Washington, D.C.:

Organizations

IAALS

APRL

American Bar Association

Conference of Chief Justices

NCSC

HiiL

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Other Resources

IAALS and HiiL Justice Needs and Satisfaction in the United States of America

ABA Center for Innovation Legal Innovation Regulatory Survey

Legal Regulatory Survey

National Center for Access to Justice’s Justice Index 2021

Self-Represented Litigation Network's Court Navigators Resource Page

World Justice Project's Atlas of Legal Needs Surveys

World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index

Scholarship

Legal Aid Without Lawyers: How Boston’s Nonlawyers Delivered and Shaped Justice for the Poor, 1879–1921
Kelsea A. Jeon (Winter 2022)

The Overreach of Limits on “Legal Advice”
Lauren Sudeall (January 3, 2022)

Staying Off the Sidelines: Judges as Agents for Justice System Reform
Hon. Bridget M. McCormack (October 24, 2021)

Judges and the Deregulation of the Lawyer's Monopoly
Jessica Steinberg, Anna E. Carpenter, Colleen F. Shanahan, & Alyx Mark (March 9, 2021)

Working With Your Hands Tied Behind Your Back: Non-Lawyer Perspectives on Legal Empowerment
National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) (June 2021)

Seconds to Impact?: Regulatory Reform, New Kinds of Legal Services, and Increased Access to Justice
Rebecca L. Sandefur, Thomas M. Clarke, & James Teufel (2021)

Democratizing the Rule of Law
Hon. Deno G. Himonas & Tyler J. Hubbard (June 20, 2020)

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