{"id":81038,"date":"2022-06-01T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=81038"},"modified":"2022-06-01T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:02:44","slug":"they-need-legal-advice-on-debts-should-it-have-to-come-from-lawyers-nytimes-case-filed-by-rohan-pavuluri-robert-niles-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/06\/01\/they-need-legal-advice-on-debts-should-it-have-to-come-from-lawyers-nytimes-case-filed-by-rohan-pavuluri-robert-niles-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"They Need Legal Advice on Debts. Should It Have to Come From Lawyers? [nytimes] Case filed by Rohan Pavuluri &#038; Robert Niles-Weed."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last night, Judge Crotty published a landmark 33-pg opinion, ruling in favor of Upsolve in SDNY. This is a historic step towards achieving equal rights under the law. I&#8217;m grateful to people who have fought for decades to make this possible. Full opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SuTW6QH957\">https:\/\/t.co\/SuTW6QH957<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bYIXDXgt28\">pic.twitter.com\/bYIXDXgt28<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rohan Pavuluri (@RPavuluri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RPavuluri\/status\/1529439697268875264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The original article by <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andylocal\">@andylocal <\/a><\/span>in the <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\">@nytimes<\/a> <\/span>when we first filed our challenge:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/25\/nyregion\/consumer-debt-legal-advice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>They Need Legal Advice on Debts. Should It Have to Come From Lawyers?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from nytimes.com<br \/>\n<em>A nonprofit has filed a lawsuit in New York, hoping to clear the way for volunteers to help people defend themselves against debt collection suits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/25\/nyregion\/consumer-debt-legal-advice.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-81039 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RevJohnUdo-OkonNYTimesMay22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RevJohnUdo-OkonNYTimesMay22.jpg 600w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RevJohnUdo-OkonNYTimesMay22-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span aria-hidden=\"true\">The Rev. John Udo-Okon, pastor of the Word of Life International Church in the South Bronx, hopes to be trained to help his congregants defend themselves against debt-collection suits. <\/span>Thalia Juarez for The New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Rev. John Udo-Okon, a Pentecostal minister in the Bronx, has a lot of congregants who are sued by debt collectors and don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Like most of the millions of Americans sued over consumer debt each year, Pastor Udo-Okon\u2019s congregants typically cannot retain a lawyer. When they fail to respond to the suit, they lose the case by default.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/law-firms-branch-out-beyond-lawyers-in-bid-to-beat-out-rival-advisers-11653739200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Law Firms Branch Out Beyond Lawyers in Bid to Beat Out Rival Advisers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wsj.com<br \/>\n<em>Facing competitive pressure from consulting firms and others, old law firms try to pick up new tricks<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cClients increasingly were coming to us with a problem that they needed to solve and they really didn\u2019t much care how we solved it,\u201d Mr. Portnoy said. \u201cVery often they were looking for something that was beyond the traditional tool kit.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Judge Crotty published a landmark 33-pg opinion, ruling in favor of Upsolve in SDNY. This is a historic step towards achieving equal rights under the law. I&#8217;m grateful to people who have fought for decades to make this possible. Full opinion: https:\/\/t.co\/SuTW6QH957 pic.twitter.com\/bYIXDXgt28 \u2014 Rohan Pavuluri (@RPavuluri) May 25, 2022 The original article [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,825,837,833,285,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-law-schools","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81038","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=81038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81077,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81038\/revisions\/81077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}