Nora Freeman Engstrom and James Stone, ‘Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis’, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2024), available at SSRN (14 March 2024). Imagine a world in which you call AAA for roadside assistance after a fender bender and you can ask to be transferred to a lawyer to help you with your insurance claim. In their article, ‘Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access to Justice Crisis’, Nora Freeman Engstrom and James Stone bring back a past when this was reality and offer a vision for a future in which not only drivers but also others in need of legal services can find a fast, effective, and inexpensive solution to their problems. Engstrom and Stone trace the origin of the contemporary unauthorized practice of law rules to disputes about auto clubs, staffed with lawyers, who helped members with an array of legal problems related to cars and roads … (more)
[Rebecca Roiphe, JOTWELL, 11 April]
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