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Apr. 17, 2009

Proposed Rule Would Allow Wider Access to Legal Services

David Ackerly favors a change to the Rules of Professional Conduct would allow legal services providers to greatly expand clinical opportunities.

FORUM COLUMN

By David Ackerly

Over the past decade, California has created a variety of new programs to help increase access to justice for those who can't afford full representation. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Ronald George and the California Commission on Access to Justice, we now have self-help centers, small claims advisers and family law facilitators in courthouses throughout the state. We are leading the nation in the unbundling o...

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