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- Title
PREPAID LEGAL SERVICES: AN EMERGING FRINGE BENEFIT.
- Authors
Alpander, Guvenc G.; Kobritz, Jordan I.
- Abstract
This article focuses on prepaid legal services. The legal profession has repeatedly been found remiss in its mission to supply the entire community with legal services. Among those neglected are individuals of meager or moderate means who cannot afford to engage an attorney, individuals who are unfamiliar with the process of obtaining one, and those who are simply unaware that hiring an attorney is necessary or at least advisable. These legal aid clinics, set up in heavily populated areas, reach neither the rural poor nor the middle class. Research clone in 1973-74 showed that 70 percent of the people in the U.S. did not use legal services at all, although it is certain that many of these people actually had a need for them. Approval of the prepaid legal services concept has also been voiced by the American Bar Association although there is still some discussion over the type of plans that should he utilized. The new challenge is to devise a mechanism for bringing together the many would be lawyers without clients and the many would-be clients without lawyers.
- Subjects
PREPAID legal services; PRACTICE of law; LEGAL professions; LAWYERS; ATTORNEY &; client; AMERICAN Bar Association
- Publication
ILR Review, 1978, Vol 31, Issue 2, p172
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979397803100205