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This book examines the ways in which common law countries such as England, Australia, and Canada have modernized their regulatory environments for legal services. It critiques stagnant regulation practices in the US and offers a blueprint for effective regulation of legal services to ensure affordable and accessible civil justice for all citizens.
List of contents
1 Good Regulation: What it Takes
2 The Regulation of Legal Services
3 A Great Big Mess
4 The Seismic Shift (with Survivors)
5 Aftershocks on their Way?
6 Assessment
7 It's Easy to Forget Australia was First
8 In this Corner: Queensland et. al.
9 And in this Corner: New South Wales and Victoria
10A Complex Regulatory Environment...where ILPs are just Part of the Landscape
11Assessment
12 Nova Scotia: The Road is Made by Walking
13 Manitoba (and the Other Prairie Provinces): An Intimate Connection
14 British Columbia: ABS? Who Said ABS?
15 Ontario: A False Start but on its Way
16 Canadian Bar Association: Creating the Future
17 The Continuing Path of Revolution
18 Assessment
19 There was a Time before Model Rule 5.4
20 Indestructible Model Rule 5.4
21 The Two Commissions: Different or the Same?
22 The Outliers: Washington DC, Colorado and Illinois
23 Effect of Model Rule 5.4 and the Current Regulatory Framework
24 Assessment
25 Final Assessment
26 How to Modernize a Regulatory Environment
27 Rules for a Flat World (or Regulatory Dystopia) Appendix The Modern (or Modernizing) Regulator: First-Hand Insight
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By Laura Snyder
Summary
This book examines the ways in which common law countries such as England, Australia, and Canada have modernized their regulatory environments for legal services. It critiques stagnant regulation practices in the US and offers a blueprint for effective regulation of legal services to ensure affordable and accessible civil justice for all citizens.
