https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/01/one-qcs-view/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/01/one-qcs-view/comment-page-1/#comment-1936 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:12:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2991#comment-1936 I believe that with the wide expansion of state-funded legal aid in the U.K. there have arisen complaints that the program has relaxed its once-tough standards for meritoriousness in the selection of claims to back. This particular controversy (which does not have an exact U.S. parallel) should be seen as distinct from the other problems Marriott cites, including that of “predatory lawyers”, where the debates in the U.K. more closely echo those here.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/01/one-qcs-view/comment-page-1/#comment-1935 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:39:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2991#comment-1935 I am having difficulty in seeing the connection between government funded “access to justice” for the indigent and predatory lawyers. I agree that there has been an explosion in the number of law school graduates, but I doubt that most of them have aspirations to work for legal aid services. In my experience as a former legal aid attorney and currently as a court appointed attorney in juvenile cases, those who choose to do this kind of work are not in it for the money.

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