Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States (ABA 2016)

The American Bar Association (ABA) released its Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States, available at http://abafuturesreport.com.  Included in its recommendations is that the ABA endorse the 100% access to justice goal set forth, and addresses this from the organized bar's perspective.  The twelve recommendations - http://abafuturesreport.com/#recommendations - begin with the first being, "The legal profession should support the goal of providing some form of effective assistance for essential civil legal needs to all persons otherwise unable to afford a lawyer."

 

Information about the ABA's Commission on the Future of Legal Services can be found at http://www.americanbar.org/groups/centers_commissions/commission-on-the-....