Beyond Elite Law : editorś preface / Samuel Estreicher & Joy Radice -- Foreword / Dean Martha Minow -- Overview / Hon. Wallace B. Jefferson -- Overview / Hon. Jonathan Lippman --- Part I. Current State of Access to Legal Services -- 1 Access to civil justice in America : what do we know? / Ian Weinstein -- 2. Life in the Law-thick world : legal resources for ordinary Americans / Gillian K. Hadfield & Jamie Heine -- 3. The need for a national civil justice survey of incidence and claiming behavior / Theodore Eisenberg -- 4. When does representation matter? / Russell Engler -- 5. Self-representation and the dismissal of Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases / Rafael I. Pardo -- 6. Racial disparities in legal representation for employment discrimination plaintiffs / Amy Myrick, Robert L. Nelson & Laura Beth Nielsen -- 7. The Unemployment Action Center : a student-driven response to a legal need / David Yin -- 8. Immigrant representation : meeting an urgent need / Hon. Robert A. Katzmann -- 9. Self-representation, civil Gideon, and community mobilization in immigration cases / Alina Das -- Part II. Sources Of Legal Services Assistance for Working Americans -- 10. Evolution of legal services in the United States : from the War on Poverty to civil Gideon and beyond / Jeanne Charn -- 11. The effect of contingent fees and statutory fee-shifting / David L. Noll -- 12. The market for recent law graduates / William D. Henderson -- 13. Clinical legal education and access to justice : conflicts, interests, and evolution / Margaret Drew & Dean Andrew P. Morriss -- 14. Loan repayment assistance and access to justice / Emily S. Bremer -- 15. Federally funded civil legal services / Joy Radice -- 16. New Yorḱs lawyer referral services / Allen Charne -- 17. Growth of large law firm pro bono programs / Steven A. Boutcher -- 18. Institutionalizing pro bono / Samuel Estreicher & Jonathan Remy Nash -- 19. Pro bono as a second career / Steven C. Bennett -- 20. Employer-provided legal services for employment claims / Michael Z. Green -- 21. Company-provided legal services / Maggie Gousman, John P. Frantz & Randal S. Milch -- 22. Individualized justice in class and collective actions / Adam Klein, Olivia Quinto & Nantiya Ruan -- Part III. Fashioning a Reform Agenda -- 23. New York State Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services / Helaine M. Barnett -- 24. New Yorḱs 50-hour pro bono requirement / Hon. Victoria A. Graffeo -- 25. Starting a ́low bonó law practice / Luz Herrera -- 26. Toward a more effective and accessible solo and small firm practice model / Ann Juergens -- 27. Facilitating homemade wills / Reid Kress Weisbord -- 28. Court facilitation of self-representation / Rachel Ekery -- 29. Limited representation and ethical challenges / Russell Engler -- 30. Technology can solve much of Americás access to justice problem, if we let it / Benjamin H. Barton -- 31. Mediation of employment disputes at the EEOC / E. Patrick McDermott & Ruth Obar -- 32. AAA consumer arbitration / Christopher R. Drahozal -- 33. Saturns for rickshaws : lessons for consumer arbitration and access to justice / Dean Peter B. Rutledge -- 34. Employment arbitration in the securities industry / Michael Delikat & Lisa Lupion -- 35. FINRA arbitration and employment disputes / Ariel B. Wolder -- 36. Arbitration as an employee-friendly forum / Zev J. Eigen & David S. Sherwyn -- 37. Access to justice in employment arbitration : a critical look / Alexander J.S. Colvin & Kelly Pike -- 38. Collaborative technology improves access to justice / Michael J. Wolf -- 39. Union representation in employment arbitration / Ann C. Hodges -- 40. Legal representation for New York Citýs Chinese immigrant workers / Aaron Halegua -- 41. Reassessing unauthorized practice of law rules / Kate Levine -- 42. The Pyett Protocol : collectively-bargained grievance arbitration as a forum for individual statutory employment claims / Terry Meginniss & Paul Salvatore -- 43. Integrating pro bono with the law firḿs business / Lisa Dewey, Anne Geraghty Helms, Sara Andrews, Roberta Ritvo & Richard Gruenberger -- 44. Facilitating law firm pro bono in transactional cases / Daniel L. Greenberg -- 45. What bar associations can do to improve access to civil justice / Lynn M. Kelly -- 46. The teaching law office : service and learning in the law school years / Jeanne Charn -- 47. The emergency-room law school clinic / Joy Radice & Randy Hertz -- 48. CUNY Law Schooĺs community-based and community-empowering clinics / Natalie Gomez-Velez -- 49. A new law school in Texas to address unmet legal needs / Dean Royal Furgeson, Ellen Pryor, Cheryl Wattley, Valerie James & Eric Porterfield -- 50. Public service residency in lieu of the third year of law school / Samuel Estreicher & Randal S. Milch.
Summary:
"This chapter by Ian Weinstein offers an overview of the body of research that describes what we know about access to civil justice for Americans of low and moderate means. It looks at the problem from two perspectives: the demand side of those who have unmet civil legal needs and the providers that offer legal assistance to this population. Weinstein evaluates surveys that attempt to quantify the civil legal needs for this population. He then reviews the body of research on how Americans fare when they represent themselves. The chapter closes with an inventory of the different civil legal service providers assisting Americans of average means, from pro bono lawyers to government-funded legal aid organizations.-Eds. The crisis in access to justice for low- and moderate-income Americans has been the subject of renewed attention by the federal government, states, and private groups in recent years"-- Provided by publisher.
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