There have been a lot of developments in legal ethics both nationally and in Tennessee over the last few weeks, and I hope to be catching up on discussing those in posts over the coming weeks. But not today. Tennessee like most jurisdictions has a version of RPC 6.1 about pro bono service and calls […]
On March 31, the Tennessee Supreme Court prudently decided not to turn Tennessee’s mechanism for lawyers to provide information about how much pro bono they perform each year into a mandatory obligation. Mandatory reporting could have placed lawyers at risk of the administrative suspension of their license for being unwilling to provide such information. […]
Pretty quick on the heels of this prior post, we now have a further development from the West Coast on the potential utility of limited license legal technicians, i.e. “nurse practitioners for the legal profession,” in providing better access to justice. The California State Bar has now put out for public comment a number of proposals […]
One likely future facing the practice of law in the U.S. is now on display in the State of Washington and getting some high-profile publicity this week. This article in The Washington Post tells you almost all you need to know about the introduction of Limited License Legal Technicians (or “nurse practitioners of the legal world” […]