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'Going it alone'

Go read the Texas Tribune's Reeve Hamilton's story on pro se litigants and the functional challenges they pose to a court system designed to service attorneys. Here are a few tidbits that jumped out at me:"The Bexar County Civil District Courts saw 1,639 pro se litigants in March alone ? approximately 31 per day.""Lisa Rush, manager of the Travis County Law Library & Courthouse Self-Help Center, says members of the legal community 'need to reexamine who their customers are' as an increasing number of lay people are researching cases on their own. She has scaled back on expenses for law books and invested in bolstering the library?s online presence.""People representing themselves who need to do research can access only 15 staffed law libraries in all of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).