One of the biggest scandals for the nation’s legal profession is its inability to offer accessible, reasonably priced legal services to the middle class. Lawyers are so expensive, and their services so confusing, that only corporations and wealthy individuals can afford them.
The United States now ranks 67th in the “people can access and afford civil justice” ranking of the respected Rule of Law Index. That places us behind Iran, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and, of course, all the countries of Western Europe.
