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Americans Simply Can't Afford Lawyers Anymore

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

More and more Americans are now representing themselves, with just one in four civil defendants represented by counsel, according to Bloomberg. This is down from nearly all defendants having lawyers in 1992, according to a 2015 study. The number of litigants without lawyers has risen in the four years since the study, as well. 

An opportunity for justice is the "bedrock" of the American legal system, but pro se litigants up against attorneys are unlikely to win their cases or settle on beneficial terms. 

Trish McAllister, head of the Texas Access to Justice Commission said: "It's really a crisis. People aren't able to get into the courts and they're not able to navigate them once they're there."


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