From Non-Lawyer to Law Student: Perspectives on Access to Justice

<p>Going to law school seemed a bit paradoxical for me. Of course, given that I had not yet gone to law school at the time, I was a non-lawyer. But not only was I a non-lawyer, I also advanced the idea that non-lawyers could &mdash; and should &mdash; be able to provide legal help to those in need. I worked as a non-lawyer Navigator trained by the New York Courts to provide guidance to self-represented individuals in New York City&rsquo;s civil courts; I wrote a historical paper about a patriot who sought to abolish the American legal profession in the 1780s; and I published a law review article about how women non-lawyers started legal aid in Boston. Yet here I was, matriculating at Stanford Law.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/justice-rising/from-non-lawyer-to-law-student-perspectives-on-access-to-justice-4a01bc77ab17"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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