One of the most significant problems faced by the legal profession in the twenty-first century is the ineffective delivery of legal services. Millions in need of legal representation are unable to afford a lawyer and thousands of lawyers are unemployed. We are desperate for a solution to...

Is legal information speech within the meaning of the First Amendment? If so, to what extent may government constitutionally regulate the creation and dissemination of legal information, particularly by lawyers? Professor Renee Knake suggests that the answers to these questions hold significant...

Ongoing, systematic research on civil legal needs and services is an essential component of improving the quality and availability of such services. Collaboration among researchers, legal services providers, and regulators will only become more important as innovations in the delivery of legal...

When Justice Blackmun authored the famed opinion striking down the universal ban on lawyer advertising in Bates v. Arizona State Bar, he envisioned opening the market to information and competition in ways that would address a long-enduring access to justice problem for low and moderate income...

Lawyers enjoy an exclusive monopoly over their craft, one unlike any profession or industry. They bar all others from offering legal representation. In most jurisdictions, lawyer-judges draft, enact, and enforce their own professional conduct rules as well as preside over any legal challenge to...

This essay identifies and defines an emerging trend I call the “commercialization of legal ethics,” a confluence of profit-driven forces supplementing and, perhaps, in some ways even replacing traditional lawyer regulation, i.e. the ethical rules modeled by the American Bar Association and...

What explains the dramatic contrast between legal services regulation in the United States and anglophone Canada, on one hand, and England/Wales and Australia, on the other? In order to help explain these divergent regulatory choices, and to further comparative analysis, this Essay proposes a...