A partner in a New York City law firm suggests “it’s become a theoretical impossibility” to serve all the thousands of purported victims who are in need of legal representation for age-old allegations of sex abuse, after a 2019 reform measure extended the statute of limitation on cases.

Attorney James Marsh, a partner with Marsh Law, said he figured to get about 100 clients who would file claims under the Child Victims Act of 2019, which allows the statute of limitations to begin running when a child turns 23 in a criminal case, and for civil suits to be filed before a toddler, preteen or teenage victim turns 55. The lookback window on cases ended on Aug. 14, 2021, after being open for two years.

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