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Rural Justice: Improving Access To Justice In The Rural Reaches Of Southern California, Lisa R. Pruitt
Rural Justice: Improving Access To Justice In The Rural Reaches Of Southern California, Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
Improving Access to Justice in the Rural Reaches of Southern California
© Lisa R. Pruitt & Rebecca H. Williams 2018
Our nation has, in recent years, become aware of the lawyer shortage afflicting rural communities, along with associated rural access to justice challenges. This short article, written for an issue of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine highlighting various access to justice issues, focuses on Southern California’s rural communities. In particular, we analyze recent data on attorney distribution throughout that region to highlight the extent and details of the rural attorney shortage in eight Southern California counties.
We begin …