There are various definititons about community lawyering that range from community driven economic development movements to lawyering for a community constituency to the neighborhood-based law office – all forging paths to access our justice system. This blog is designed to elicit your ideas about and examples of community lawyering. Community Lawyers, Inc. hopes that these entries will serve as resources that facilitate attorney and non-attorney “community lawyers” to advocate, agitate and transform our legal institutions to be more responsive and accessible to the consumers of legal and political systems.
What does “community lawyering” mean to you? See one definition at http://www.legaltrends.net/community-lawyering.
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