Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman yesterday announced the makeup of a committee to study the feasibility of allowing non-attorneys to provide legal services to poor New Yorkers in "simpler" civil matters.
Roger Maldonado, a partner at Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin in Manhattan, and Fern Schair, chairwoman of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham University School of Law, will cochair the Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap. Lippman said the committee will make preliminary recommendations for pilot programs by November.
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