The American Bar Association is calling attention to the uneven distribution of lawyers across the United States in its second annual deep dive into the shape of the legal profession, adding a geographic dimension to the burgeoning industrywide discussion of the access to justice gap.
The figures on “legal deserts” are the lead entry and one of two new tranches of data in the ABA’s second Profile of the Legal Profession, released Tuesday. They land at a time when a number of states are looking into updating how they regulate lawyers with the goal of insuring greater representation for individuals in need.
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