Fern Schair, chair of the Feerick Center for Social Justice‘s advisory board, spoke with the New York Law Journal about the American Bar Association’s adoption of a resolution giving states a regulatory framework for allowing nonlawyers to provide simple legal services.
New York’s Committee on Nonlawyers and the Justice Gap has called for expanding the program so nonlawyers could negotiate with opposing counsel and help Housing Court litigants and litigants in consumer cases develop strategies for their defense.
“We’re looking at poor people who are in these courts, who have so much at stake, who have no representation at all,” said Fern Schair, co-chair of the committee.