LSC Cuts a Disaster for Access to Justice
Trump Cuts LSC From Proposed Budget While you’ve been reading news about proposed dramatic spending on the wall on the Mexican border, or cuts to the corporation for public broadcasting, you might have missed that the budget proposed by Donald Trump also includes completely eliminating the Legal Services Corporation. The LSC is a quasi-governmental entity […]
Will Non-Lawyers Soon Be Able to Practice Some Law in California?
In the medical world, if you don’t have insurance and can’t afford a doctor, you can show up at a public emergency room or health clinic, where (though you may wait long hours) you will generally eventually be treated. This is less than ideal – it does not offer preventive care and early diagnosis, and it clogs the emergency rooms – but it is, at least, a back stop. In the legal world, though, if you can’t afford an attorney, you have no back stop.