A Survey of Policy Responses to the Rural Attorney Shortage in the United States

K. V. Beskin, Lisa R. Pruitt
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This chapter surveys the short history of policymakers’ and scholars’ attention to the rural lawyer shortage in the United States, discussing this phenomenon as one aspect of a burgeoning rural access-to-justice (A2J) crisis. A number of initiatives to narrow the rural-urban justice gap are currently afoot in the United States, including the expanded use of paralegals and various interventions based on artificial intelligence and other technologies. These, however, are beyond the scope of this chapter, which focuses on the rural attorney shortage. We categorize policy responses to that problem into several overlapping strands: (1) programs that provide financial incentives and other supports for lawyers to practice in rural locales;(2) programs that channel urban attorney resources to rural areas;and (3) programs focused on cultivating and expanding the pipeline to rural practice. Where possible, we provide status reports on initiatives in an effort to document and publicize their progress, thereby informing future policymaking. Finally, we discuss briefly the medium- to long-terms impacts that changes driven by the COVID-19 pandemic may have on the legal profession and delivery of legal services in rural America.
美国农村律师短缺的政策对策研究
本章回顾了美国政策制定者和学者关注农村律师短缺的短暂历史,并将这一现象作为新兴的农村司法救助危机的一个方面进行了讨论。美国目前正在采取一系列举措缩小城乡司法差距,包括扩大律师助理的使用,以及基于人工智能和其他技术的各种干预措施。然而,这些都超出了本章的范围,本章主要讨论农村律师短缺问题。我们将针对这一问题的政策回应分为几个重叠的部分:(1)为律师在农村执业提供财政激励和其他支持的项目;(2)将城市律师资源引导到农村地区的项目;(3)专注于培养和扩大农村执业渠道的项目。在可能的情况下,我们提供关于计划的状态报告,以努力记录和公布其进展,从而为未来的政策制定提供信息。最后,我们简要讨论了由COVID-19大流行驱动的变化可能对美国农村法律专业和法律服务的提供产生的中长期影响。
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