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Suggestion for a New Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Governing the Sealing of Judicial Records

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Matthew Brundage, Amy Cass, Othman Bensouda Koraichi

From State Tort to Federal Liabiliy: An FTCA Field Guide for Minnesota Practitioners

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Malka Herman
  • Practice Guide
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  • Stanford Law School,

Competition and Contingency Fees

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • Law Review
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  • Georgetown Law Journal,

Public Comment in Response to Tennessee Supreme Court Order

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Natalie Knowlton
  • Rhode Center Comment to TN Supreme Court
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Unauthorized Practice: Assessing Available Evidence

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Natalie Knowlton
  • Law Review
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  • Boston College Law Review,

Sealing Order Reform: Lessons for Judges & Policymakers

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Matthew Brundage, Amy Cass, Othman Bensouda Koraichi
  • Policy Brief
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  • Stanford Law School,

Managerial Courts

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Elliot Setzer
  • Law Review
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  • Yale Law Journal,

Secret Settlement Reform: Lessons for Policymakers

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Garrett Wen
  • Policy Brief
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  • Stanford Law School,

The Rhode Center Comments on Support for the Montana Legal Services Association Petition to Adopt a Certified Lay Advocate Program

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Letter to the Montana Supreme Court,

Uber’s Fight to Lock Poor Plaintiffs Out of the Courthouse

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • The Sacramento Bee,

The Rhode Center Comments on Support for the Civil Regulatory Reform Task Force Recommendations

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Letter to the Executive Office of the D.C. Courts,

Managing MDLs

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Brianne Holland-Stergar, Owen Foulkes
  • Stanford Law School,

Legal Insurance and Its Limits

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Michigan Law Review,

How a Rule 23(b)(2) Class Action Could Save Law Firms from Trump

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach
  • Stanford Law Review
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  • How a Rule 23(b)(2) Class Action Could Save Law Firms from Trump,

Rhode Center Comment to COPRAC Proposed Amendment to Rule 7.3

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Rhode Center Comment to COPRAC Proposed Amendment to Rule 7.3,

Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on Regulatory Change

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca, Natalie Knowlton
  • Report
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  • Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on Regulatory Change,

William C. Hubbard Conference on Law and Education Conference Proceedings

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • William C. Hubbard Conference on Law and Education Conference Proceedings,

A Blueprint for Expanding Access to Justice in Los Angeles Superior Court’s Eviction Docket

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Natalie Knowlton, Margaret Hagan, Daniel Bernal, Ayelet Sela
  • Research Report
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  • Stanford Law School Website,

Protecting Unhoused Veterans’ Access to Federal Court for Relief from Disability Discrimination: Stanford’s Rose Carmen Goldberg and Matthew Rogowski Discuss Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief

  • Rose Carmen Goldberg
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Protecting Unhoused Veterans’ Access to Federal Court for Relief from Disability Discrimination: Stanford’s Rose Carmen Goldberg Files Ninth Circuit Amicus Brief

  • Rose Carmen Goldberg
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,

The Supreme Court’s Decision in Lackey v. Stinnie and What It Means for Plaintiffs’ Access to Courts

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Kelsea Jeon
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Increasing Access to Justice Through Community Justice Workers: A Proposal for California

  • Increasing Access to Justice Through Community Justice Workers: A Proposal for California,

Shedding Light on Secret Settlements: An Empirical Study of California’s STAND Act

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Austin Peters, Garrett Wen
  • Journal Article
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  • The University of Chicago Law Review,

The Litigation Transparency Project: Rhode Center Project Shines a Light on Secret Settlements and Protective Orders

  • Aaron Schaffer-Neitz, Garrett Wen
  • Article
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  • Stanford Lawyer,

The Automated State: A Realist View

  • David Freeman Engstrom
  • Law Review
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  • The George Washington Law Review,

Rhode Center Comment on the Arizona Community-Based Justice Worker Service Proposal

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Arizona Supreme Court,

Mental Health and Lawyer Licensing: New Report from SLS’s Rhode Center Investigates the Practice of Screening Bar Applicants for Mental Health Conditions

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Comment on the Legal Assistance for Access to VA Programs Grant Program

  • Rose Carmen Goldberg
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,

Keeping the Courthouse Doors Open to Active-Duty Servicemembers: Stanford’s Rose Carmen Goldberg Discusses Military Lending Act Supreme Court Amicus Brief

  • Rose Carmen Goldberg
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Mental Health Screening in Lawyer Licensing

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Graham Ambrose, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • White Paper
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  • Stanford Law School,

Addressing California’s Access to Justice Crisis by Fundamentally Rethinking Legal Services: A Conversation with Stanford’s David Engstrom and Lucy Ricca

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca
  • Q&A
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  • Stanford Legal Aggregate,

We should focus on—and invest in—AI that serves people without lawyers

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • ABA Journal,

Amicus Brief for Louis v. Bluegreen Vacations

  • Rose Carmen Goldberg, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • Government Advocacy
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  • On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,

In Support of Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals and Licensed Court-Access Assistants Programs

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Comment to the Texas Supreme Court,

Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, James Stone
  • Journal Article
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  • Yale Law Journal,

Secrecy by Stipulation

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Austin Peters, Aaron Schaffer-Neitz
  • Journal Article
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  • Duke Law Journal,

Conference on Access to Justice in California: Challenges and Policy Innovations

  • Lucy Ricca, Eric Helland
  • Research Report
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  • Conference on Access to Justice in California,

The Rhode Center Comments on Nonlawyer Assistance/Representation in Agency Proceedings

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Natalie Knowlton
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the Administrative Conference of the United States,

Rhode Center Comment on the Entity Regulation Pilot Project Proposal

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the Washington Supreme Court Practice of Law Board,

Amicus Brief in Support of Unsealing Documents in a Patent Lawsuit

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach, Rose Carmen Goldberg, Brianne Holland-Stergar
  • Amicus Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Outside the Box: How States Are Increasing Access to Justice Through Evidence-Based Regulation of the Practice of Law

  • Lucy Ricca, Rebecca Sandefur
  • Journal Article
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  • Judicature,

New Data on an Old Problem: Stanford’s Nora and David Freeman Engstrom Discuss their Study on Protective Orders and Court Secrecy

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Justice for All? Why We Have an Access to Justice Gap in America—and What Can We Do About It?

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Amici Curiae Brief in Glossip v. Oklahoma: Support to Correct Witnesses’ False Testimony

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors Supporting Plaintiff in Glossip v. Oklahoma,

The Making of the A2J Crisis

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Essay
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  • Stanford Law Review,

Building Better Civil Justice Systems Isn’t Just About The Funding

  • Mark Chandler, Jess Lu
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • LawSites,

Amicus Brief – South Carolina State Conference of NAACP v. Wilson

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Amicus Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals,

Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design

  • David Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • Annual Review of Law and Social Science,

The Bar Re-Imagined: Options for State Courts to Re-Structure the Regulation of the Practice of Law

  • Lucy Ricca, Thomas Clarke
  • White Paper
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  • Stanford Law School Website,

Innocence, Integrity, and Rule Reform

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Review
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  • Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots),

Felons, Outlaws, and Tort’s Troubling Treatment of the “Wrongdoer” Plaintiff

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Robert L. Rabin
  • Journal Article
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  • J. Tort L.,

Tort Trials and Tribulations

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Blog Post
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  • Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots),

Amicus Brief of Legal Ethics Professors in Glossip v. State of Oklahoma

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court,

Rule 3.8 – Letter to the Editor in the NY Times

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • New York Times,

Don’t Scapegoat Robots to Protect the Lawyer Monopoly on Services

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • Bloomberg Law,

Plaintiffs and Attorneys in Multidistrict Litigation: Strengths, Deficits, and Paths Forward

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Todd Venook, Silvie Saltzman
  • Report
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  • Stanford Law School Website,

Deborah L. Rhode Center’s Public Comment on California’s Proposed New Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the Board of Trustees, State Bar of California,

Rhode Center Letter in Support of North Carolina Justice for All Project

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca
  • Letter
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  • Letter to the General Assembly of North Carolina,

Harnessing Common Benefit Fees to Promote MDL Integrity

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Todd Venook
  • Journal Article
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  • Texas Law Review,

Stanford’s David Engstrom Explores the Impact of Legal Technology on Civil Justice

  • David Freeman Engstrom
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Toward the Participatory MDL: A Low-Tech Step to Promote Litigant Autonomy

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Todd Venook
  • Book Section
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  • Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice,

Legal Tech and the Litigation Playing Field

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Book Section
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  • Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice,

Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellees in the Upsolve, Inc. v. James Case

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Amici Curiae to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,

Amicus Letter Urging Review of California Capital Insurance Company, et al. v Cory Michael Hoehn

  • David Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the Supreme Court of California,

Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Respondents

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Brief to the Texas Supreme Court,

Effective Deregulation: A Look Under the Hood of State Civil Courts

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • Legal Profession JOTWELL (The Journal of Things We Like (Lots),

Why Do Blue States Keep Prioritizing Lawyers Over Low-Income Americans?

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Slate,

The High Highs and Low Lows of Legal Regulatory Reform

  • Lucy Ricca
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • Legal Evolution,

Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca, Graham Ambrose, Maddie Walsh
  • Report
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California Should Not Bar Access to Justice

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom, Scott Cummings
  • Op-Ed
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  • Bloomberg Law,

Legislators Shouldn’t Shut Down Ways to Help Californians Get Legal Help

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • CalMatters,

Designing and Implementing Legal Regulation

  • Lucy Ricca, Thomas Clarke
  • White Paper
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  • Stanford Law School Website,

Do our legislators believe in equal justice for all? Bill would kill civil legal system reform

  • Jason Solomon, Jim Sandman
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • Santa Cruz Sentinel,

UPL, Upsolve, and the Community Provision of Legal Advice

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

CLP Letter Supporting CA’s Public Right to Know Act

  • Jason Solomon
  • Government Advocacy
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  • California's Senate Judiciary Committee,

Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors Who Study Access to Justice and Regulation of the Legal Profession in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Brief
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  • Letter to the U.S. District Court,

Scholars’ Letter to CJ Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court,

Don’t Shut Down Efforts to Close the Justice Gap

  • Jason Solomon
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • CalMatters,

Letter to Judiciary Committee Chairs on Increasing Californians’ Access to Legal Services

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Lucy Ricca
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Closing the Justice Gap Working Group,

Stanford Law’s David Freeman Engstrom on California’s Access-to-justice Crisis and the State Bar’s Closing the Justice Gap Working Group

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Stephanie Ashe
  • Q&A
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  • Legal Aggregate,

The Reregulation of Utah: Managing Risk with Better Protections

  • Lucy Ricca
  • Newspaper/Magazine Article
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  • GPSolo Magazine,

A Promising Path to Increase Access to Justice

  • Jason Solomon, Noelle Smith
  • Blog Post
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Will Lawyers be Part of the Growth in Legal Services?

  • Lucy Ricca, Jason Solomon
  • Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
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  • Daily Journal,

The Surprising Success of Washington State’s Limited License Legal Technician Program

  • Jason Solomon, Noelle Smith
  • White Paper
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  • Stanford Law School Website,

The State Bar of California’s Comments Submitted to the California Paraprofessional Program Working Group

  • Jason Solomon
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to Justice Petrou and Members of the California Paraprofessional Working Group:,

Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism

  • David Freeman Engstrom, Jonah Gelbach
  • Journal Article
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  • Jonah B. Gelbach,

Pursuing Public Health Through Litigation

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • Stanford Law School Review,

Managing Stress, Grief, and Mental Health Challenges in the Legal Profession; Not Your Usual Law Review Article

  • Deborah L. Rhode
  • Article
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  • Fordham Law Review,

Access to Justice During COVID-19

  • Jason Solomon, Deborah L. Rhode
  • Journal Article
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  • Legal Aggregate,

Legal Ethics Scholars’ Letter in Support of Rule 5.4 Reform

  • Deborah L. Rhode
  • Government Advocacy
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  • Letter to the State Bar of California, Board of Trustees,

How Reforming Rule 5.4 Would Benefit Lawyers and Consumers, Promote Innovation, and Increase Access to Justice

  • Jason Solomon, Deborah L. Rhode
  • Report
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  • Rhode Center Publication,

Lone Pine Orders: A Critical Examination and Empirical Analysis

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • University of Pennsylvania Law Review,

The Lessons of Lone Pine

  • Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Journal Article
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  • Yale Law Journal,

Unlocking the Bar: Expanding Access to the Legal Profession

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