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Unbundled Legal Services
Web Sites
http://www.unbundledlaw.org
This web site, hosted by the Maryland Legal
Assistance Network, originated with the convening of a national conference
on “The Changing Face of Legal Practice: A National Conference on
‘Unbundled’ Legal Services” in October 2000. The
site contains the documents and recommendations from the conference as well
as a bibliography, ethics opinions, profiles of local programs, and updates
on activity at the national and state level.
Unbundled Resource Center
This web site, hosted by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee
on the Delivery of Legal Services, includes a bibliography of articles,
books, case law, ethics opinions, and court rules related to unbundled legal
services.
Mosten
Mediation
This web site, hosted by family lawyer and mediator Forrest (Woody) Mosten,
includes links to resources for lawyers and clients interested in the
unbundled model of service delivery.
The Maryland Experiment
Articles on Limited Legal Services
(Many of these articles are older articles and focus on the delivery of
limited legal services off-line, not on-line.)
Barrie Althoff,
Limiting the Scope of Your Representation: Questions of Cost, Candor, and
Disclosure, Washington State Bar News (Jul. 1997).
Barrie Althoff,
Limiting the Scope of Your Representation: When Your Client Wants, or Can
Afford, Only Part of You, Washington State Bar News (Jun. 1997).
Courts and the Self-Represented -- The Road Ahead (Editorial),
American Judicature Society, Vol. 84, at 300 (May/Jun. 2001).
Anthony P. Capozzi,
Responding to the Pro Per Crisis, California Bar Journal (Feb
2004).
John Greacen,
Self-Represented Litigants and Court and Legal Services Responses to
Their Needs: What We Know, (2002).
Paula L. Hannaford-Agor,
Helping the Pro Se Litigant: A Changing Landscape, Court Review,
p. 8, (Winter 2003).
William Hornsby,
Improving the Delivery of Affordable Legal Services Through the Internet:
A Blueprint for the Shift to a Digital Paradigm, ABA Standing
Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services (Nov. 1999).
California
California Rules of Court, Rule 5.70, Nondisclosure of attorney
assistance in preparation of court documents, permits a lawyer to
draft pleadings in family law matters without disclosure.
California Rules of Court, Rule 5.71, Application to be relieved as
counsel upon completion of limited scope representation, details the
procedure governing limited appearances in family law matters.
California Report on Self-represented litigants:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/cfcc/resources/publications/actionplanrpt.htm
New
York
Report and Recommendations on "Unbundled" Legal Services, Commission
on Providing Access to Legal Services for Middle Income Consumers, New York
State Bar Association (Dec. 2002).
Early article on ethics and lawyers and unbundling: http://www.freecle.com/materials/current.html
