Lawyers Monopoly Webinar Series #4: Charting the Future of Legal Services

A new volume, edited by Rhode Center Co-Directors and Stanford Law School professors David Freeman Engstrom and Nora Freeman Engstrom (and available open access on Cambridge Core), brings together leading legal scholars and practitioners to propose new conceptual frameworks for reform, drawing lessons from other professions, industries, and places, both within the United States and across the world. Rethinking the Lawyers’ Monopoly: Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services seeks to help shape and steer the coming revolution in the legal services marketplace. To bring these discussions off the page, the Rhode Center launched a four-part webinar series exploring various facets of the lawyers’ monopoly. The first session considered diverse frameworks for thinking about regulatory innovation, the second explored on-the-ground reform efforts, and the third focused on lessons from other industries and places. This fourth and final session grapples with a bevy of interrelated questions concerning the future of legal services. This webinar will leverage different perspectives to explore some of these questions, offering policymakers and other stakeholders a rich landscape for critical exploration and action.