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The Law Firm Operations Team: Collaborative Agent Of Change In A Changing Profession, James Keuning, Ann Rainhart Jan 2018

The Law Firm Operations Team: Collaborative Agent Of Change In A Changing Profession, James Keuning, Ann Rainhart

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Valuing Small Firm And Solo Law Practice: Models For Expanding Service To Middle-Income Clients, Ann Juergens Jan 2012

Valuing Small Firm And Solo Law Practice: Models For Expanding Service To Middle-Income Clients, Ann Juergens

Faculty Scholarship

While the profession focuses on ways to meet the critical legal needs of low-income citizens, the needs of the middle group are largely left for the market to fill. The painful fact is that the market has failed to distribute lawyer services to a majority of Americans with legal needs. Ironically, the legal needs of middle-income Americans have risen with the economic crisis even as unemployment among new lawyers has increased. A large supply of trained lawyers without work theoretically should translate into lower costs and more legal needs being met. Yet the cost of legal services has continued to …