{"id":68355,"date":"2019-10-01T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68355"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T18:07:18","slug":"commentary-momentum-is-building-to-fix-our-legal-system-lets-seize-it-himonas-hadfield-lund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/10\/01\/commentary-momentum-is-building-to-fix-our-legal-system-lets-seize-it-himonas-hadfield-lund\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Momentum is building to fix our legal system. Let\u2019s seize it. [Himonas, Hadfield, &#038; Lund]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/09\/20\/commentary-momentum-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Commentary: Momentum is building to fix our legal system. Let\u2019s seize it.<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from sltrib.com by Deno Himonas, Gillian Hadfield and John Lund<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We like to say we are all equal under the law. And in terms of our rights, that may be true, but it\u2019s flat wrong when it comes to access to justice. Each year millions of Americans face a legal world of confusing online privacy policies and employment contracts, painful family or small business disputes, struggles with insurers and service providers, evictions and foreclosures, and more. What unites people, from poor to upper-middle class, is the fact that the vast majority muddle through all of this without any legal help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Why in a world with so much law do so few have access to affordable legal help? The answer is very simple: lawyers cost too much and yet there\u2019s no good alternative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Finally, a few states are taking steps to change this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>How bad is the problem? A 2010 study in New York found that 98% of people in court facing eviction, 99% of borrowers in consumer credit matters, and 95% of parents in child support cases were in court without a lawyer.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><strong style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Lawyers don\u2019t cost too much because they\u2019re greedy. They cost too much because a set of rules that courts and bar associations came up with about a hundred years ago\u2014originally intended to ensure lawyers behaved ethically\u2014forces them to operate in a highly inefficient business\u00a0model and without the capacity to embed their expertise in technologies that could drive down the cost of legal advice.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary: Momentum is building to fix our legal system. Let\u2019s seize it. &#8212; from sltrib.com by Deno Himonas, Gillian Hadfield and John Lund Excerpts: We like to say we are all equal under the law. And in terms of our rights, that may be true, but it\u2019s flat wrong when it comes to access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[829,825,830,285,560,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-law-schools","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68356,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions\/68356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}