Alternative Business Structures

New models for providing legal services have been slow to develop because of the requirement that capital for innovation may come only from lawyers. Allowing outside investment in law firms could result in innovative new models of the delivery of legal services that could expand access and reduce cost, while still maintaining the legal profession's ethical standards.

​Comments in Opposition to a Michigan Ethics Opinion Regarding Fixed-Fee Legal Services (July 16, 2018)

Brief to New Jersey Supreme Court on Attorney-Client Matching Services  (July 27, 2017)

Comments on Proposed Virginia Ethics Opinion Regarding Lawyer Participation in Attorney-Client Matching Services (May 5, 2017)

Comments on Issues Paper Regarding Alternative Business Structures, Submitted to the American Bar Association  (May 2, 2016)
 
Comments to the State Bar of California  (May 11, 2015)
 
Comments on Issues Paper on the Future of Legal Services, Submitted to the American Bar Association  (Dec 10, 2014)

Comments on Expanding Civil Legal Services in New York, Submitted to the New York Commission on Access to Justice (September 27, 2013)
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Comments on Alternative Law Practice Structures, Submitted to the American Bar Association (January 30, 2012)

Comments on Alternative Law Practice Structures, Submitted to the American Bar Association (May 31, 2011)