A year after a Pro Bono Summit was held to drum up solutions for the rapidly growing need for legal help in the state, a new report by a commission created by the state Judicial Branch shows the need is still there.
For years, state Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers has lamented that the judicial system is straining under the weight of people who are representing themselves in court, especially in divorce and child custody cases and in housing matters, such as evictions and other landlord-tenant disputes.
