Beyond Elite Law : Access to Civil Justice in America (Paperback)

Foreword; Overview; Overview; Beyond elite law: editors' introduction; Part I. Current State of Access to Legal Services by Working Americans: 1. Access to civil justice in America: what do we know?; 2. Life in the law-thick world: the legal resource landscape for ordinary Americans; 3. The need for a national civil justice survey of incidence and claiming behavior; 4. When does representation matter?; 5. Bankruptcy's false start: self-representation and the dismissal of chapter 7 cases; 6. Race and representation: racial disparities in legal representation for employment civil rights plaintiffs; 7. The unemployment action center: a student-driven response to legal need; 8. Immigrant representation: meeting an urgent need; 9. Reform at the crossroads: self-representation, civil Gideon, and community mobilizations in immigration cases; Part II. Sources of Legal Services Assistance for Working Americans: 10. The evolution of legal services in the United States: from the war on poverty to civil Gideon and beyond; 11. The effect of contingent fees and statutory fee-shifting: two models of alternative attorney-payment devices; 12. The market for recent law graduates; 13. Clinical legal education and access to justice: conflicts, interests, and evolution; 14. Loan repayment assistance as a means of promoting access to justice; 15. Federally-funded civil legal services for low-income Americans; 16. New York's lawyer referral services; 17. The growth of large law firm pro bono programs; 18. Institutionalizing pro bono; 19. Pro bono as a second career; 20. Employer-provided legal services for employment claims; 21. The Verizon pro bono program; 22. Individualized justice in class and collective actions; Part III. Fashioning a Reform Agenda: 23. Task force to expand access to civil legal services in New York; 24. New York's fifty-hour pro bono requirement for new lawyers; 25. Starting a 'low bono' law practice; 26. Toward a more effective and accessible solo and small firm practice model; 27. Facilitating homemade wills; 28. Court facilitation of self-representation; 29. Limited representation and ethical challenges; 30. Technology can solve much of America's access to justice problem, if we let it; 31. Mediation of employment disputes at the EEOC; 32. AAA consumer arbitration; 33. Saturns for rickshaws ? lessons for consumer arbitration and the access to justice; 34. Employment arbitration in the securities industry; 35. FINRA arbitration and access to justice in employment disputes; 36. Arbitration as an employee-friendly forum; 37. Access to justice in employment arbitration; 38. Collaborative technology improves access to justice; 39. Union representation in employment arbitration; 40. Legal representation for New York City's Chinese immigrant workers: the role of intermediate institutions; 41. Reassessing unauthorized practice of law rules; 42. The Pyett protocol: collectively-bargained grievance-arbitration systems as a forum for individual statutory employment claims; Part IV. Creating a Culture of Service: 43. Integrating pro bono activities with the law firm's business; 44. Facilitating law firm pro bono transactional matters; 45. What bar associations do and can do to improve access to civil justice; 46. The teaching law office: service and learning in the law school years; 47. The emergency-room law school clinic; 48. CUNY Law School's community-based and community-empowering clinics; 49. A new law school in Texas to address unmet legal needs; 50. Public service residency program in lieu of the third year of law school.