Much has been written about the simultaneous shortage of employment opportunities for lawyers and affordable legal services for persons of moderate means. Less has been said about the opportunities that this market situation might provide for addressing both of those problems.
A recent report by the New York City Bar Association Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession, entitled “Developing Legal Careers and Delivering Justice in the 21st Century,” notes “the irony that, at a time of widespread hand-wringing about the supposed ‘oversupply’ of lawyers in our profession, and at a time when law-graduate unemployment is at an all-time high, tens of millions of Americans in all areas of the country have important unmet legal needs.”
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