The American Bar Association litigation section’s annual conference met in Atlanta last week to tackle an ambitious issue: providing publicly funded legal counsel for people who can’t afford a lawyer but face adversarial proceedings threatening their shelter, livelihood, child custody, health or safety.
Expanding access to civil justice has become a national movement in the last five years, said one participant, Debra L. Gardner, the coordinator of the National Coalition for the Civil Right to Counsel, which launched in 2003. But conference participants, who included a former and future ABA president, acknowledged that they’ve got a long road ahead of them.
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