ALBANY – The leaders of the New York State Bar Association are raising questions about a proposal to allow non-lawyers to assist poor New Yorkers in legal matters—specifically, how these “navigators” would be monitored, supervised and evaluated.
In an email to the group’s members last week, state bar President David Schraver said he and President-Elect Glenn Lau-Kee met on Feb. 25 with Roger Maldonado and Fern Schair, the co-chairs of the Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap (NYLJ, May 29, 2013), which is enacting the Court Navigator Program at the behest of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
