State court administrators have formally endorsed “limited-scope” representation of clients in New York in appropriate cases, saying it can help more low- and moderate-income civil litigants find counsel to handle discrete legal tasks.
Limited-scope legal assistance is also known as “unbundled” or “discrete-task” representation, according to an American Bar Association guidebook on the practice, in which rather than representing a client from the beginning to the end, a lawyer may handle only certain parts of a case.
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