The cartel
Ninety-two percent of low-income Americans facing civil legal problems receive no legal help. Not inadequate help. None.
The bottleneck is not complexity. It is licensing. Bar associations in every state restrict who may give legal advice....
Ninety seconds
January 2024. A solo practitioner in Phoenix used an AI tool to review a 340-page commercial lease. Eleven clauses flagged, two contradictions identified, redline produced with UCC citations and three Ninth Circuit cases. Ninety seconds....
The backpack
In 2023, a man in Tennessee spent eleven months in pretrial detention. The charge: misdemeanor theft. The item: a forty-dollar backpack. His public defender had 437 other clients....