2026 October Louisiana Fellows Reception and Presentation

Please join the Louisiana Fellows for a reception and presentation of The Crucial Question - Deny Legal Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers by ABF Research Professor, Emeritus, Stephen Daniels. Tuesday, October 13, 2026 5:30 pm - 7:30pm CT Office of Breazeale Sachse One American Place 301 Main Street, Suite 2300 Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Like Marely's Ghost in A Christmas Carol, with the chains and metal boxes of his economic past weighing on him, the challenge of unmet civil legal needs haunts the American legal system to its core. Many Americans, and not just the poor, find it impossible to take advantage of the rights and remedies the law provides. This reflects a permanent tension within a legal system grounded in deeply held notions of justice and legitimacy. This Fellows program explores an evolving innovation in the states responding to that challenge. A bold and controversial innovation with far-reaching potential for the delivery of legal services. The innovation redefines who can deliver legal services if not licensed attorneys. The program is about states as laboratories for what is, admittedly, an access to justice experiment. As then Washington State Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said in the 2012 order creating the Limited License Legal Technician, the first such non-lawyer program, No one has a crystal ball ... There is simply no way to know the answer to this question without trying it. In 2026, the question now is what have we learned? The Fellows gratefully recognize event sponsor: