Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oct. 1, 2021
Access denied: California’s watering down of the legal profession
Last month, the California State Bar published its “California Paraprofessional Program Working Group Report and Recommendations,” which recommends the phasing in of a new licensed paraprofessional for specified practice areas that aims to address the justice gap study.
Jason E. Fellner
Partner
Fellner Law Group
Legal malpractice
University of San Francisco School of Law
California has approximately 190,000 licensed attorneys with roughly 1,600 superior court judges and over 100 judicial vacancies for 58 Superior Courts. There are approximately 40 million people in California. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the average time a civil case took from filing to conclusion was one to three years; the average now is certainly longer.
In 2019, the California State Bar completed a justice gap study that reported t...
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