It is beyond debate that a very large number of people need legal representation and are not able to pay for it.
Depending on which statistics you believe, it appears that at least 75 percent of parties involved in dissolution of marriage litigation are self-represented. The results are courts clogged with matters that do not proceed efficiently and decisions probably based on less effective presentation of fact and argument. The same, though perhaps to a lesser degree, is true of other litigation, and also of non-litigation legal matters.
