Legal Reform News

• Illinois ARDC Protects Consumer Access to Lawyer I ...
  The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) yesterday rejected a
  lawyer’s complaint against Total Attorneys, a national company that provides (among
  other services) pay-per-c ...
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• CLEAR Comments for California's Elkins Family Law ...
  CLEAR has just submitted comments to the Judicial Council of California on the draft
  recommendations of its Elkins Family Law Task Force. In June, I returned to CLEAR after
  three years away from th ...
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• CLEAR Wins Legislative Victory in California
  CLEAR (a project of HALT) scored a major victory in September when it led the campaign
  to remove several provisions of a California bill that would have outlawed low-cost
  alternatives to hiring a la ...
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• Google Scholar Makes Case Law Accessible
  On Tuesday, Google added cases and legal journals to its Google Scholar service. Using
  Google Scholar, anyone can now do basic legal research on caselaw, such as tracking which
  cases in a specific ju ...
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• California Passes "Civil Gideon" Law
  On October 11, 2009 California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 590 into law. The
  landmark legislation creates a pilot program which partners legal aid organizations with
  the courts to provide f ...
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