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• Legal aid budget is disappointingly low, says Australian Law Council

  May 15 2012 Funding for legal aid services in Australia is disappointingly low, according to the Law Council of Australia after the release of the Australian government’s 2012-13... more

• NY Bar to require 50 hours pro bono service for professional license

  May 09 2012 Law students taking the bar in New York next year will be required to do 50 hours of pro bono work as a condition of their license to practice. Chief Judge... more

• 'NO SALE' on NY suit for non-lawyer ownership of firms

  Mar 13 2012 A federal judge in New York has dismissed the suit brought by plaintiff firm Jacoby & Meyers which challenged a state rule prohibiting nonlawyer investment in law... more

• US Legal Aid to take another funding cut

  Jan 27 2012 Legal Aid in the US is set to take yet another hit, as a bill passed last November to slash federal funding for civil legal assistance to the poor by about 14% — from... more

• Third-party litigation funding changes the game in the UK

  Dec 29 2011 Here is an interesting article in The Guardian about third party funding of litigation, where a disinterested third party takes on the financial risk of another's... more

• US firms cut pro bono hours while need increases

  Dec 02 2011 Pro bono work at large law firms appears to be on the slide, as law firms cut costs in a difficult economy. Reports show that the average number of pro bono hours... more

• An anatomy of the Indian legal profession by Kian Ganz

  Oct 31 2011 Kian Ganz, the publishing editor of www.LegallyIndia.com, here gives a brief anatomy of the legal services industry in India. The scale of the industry in India is... more

• ABA considers allowing non-lawyers to have a stake in US law firms

  Oct 29 2011 Here is an interesting article in the NY Times that takes a look at developments around the world with respect to outside investment in law firms. Australia and... more

• The growth of a pro-bono culture in Russia

  Aug 25 2011 Here is an interesting article on the growth of pro bono legal work in Russia. Just a few years ago, pro bono work was an unfamiliar concept in Russia, but things are... more

• Cuts to legal aid in the UK eliminate an important 'reality check' for litigants

  Aug 11 2011 An interesting article here from The Guardian about the effect that cuts in legal aid may have upon the British court system and those that use it to try and get... more

• NY Attorney General argues against opening law firms to outside investment

  Jul 26 2011 US law firm Jacoby & Meyers has brought a case seeking to overturn New York Court Rule 5.4, which prohibits law firms from accepting outside investment. The firm... more

• Without bank funding, UK sole practitioners are folding in numbers

  Jul 25 2011 The number of sole practitioner firms in the UK fell from 4,056 in March 2010 to just 3,692 one year later, says independent finance provider, Syscap. According to... more

• Government of India approves infrastructure funding for lower courts

  Jun 27 2011 Good news for the lower courts of India - the Government has decided to invest in adequate infrastructure to reduce the backlog of cases. The decision follows the... more

• Jacoby & Meyers challenges partnership model in US courts

  May 20 2011 Jacoby & Meyers is making a challenge to state laws that prevent non-lawyers from owning stakes in law firms. According to the firm, the restrictions have restricted... more

• Delhi High Court stays proposed service tax on lawyers

  May 06 2011 The Delhi High Court and Guwahati High Court has stayed the Central Government’s decision to impose a service tax upon lawyers from 1 May. The Delhi High Court Bar... more

• Budget cuts threaten access to justice in the US

  Apr 18 2011 Government cost cutting, at both the state and federal level, is threatening access to justice in the US, according to reports. According to the Wall Street... more

• Criminal Contempt for misconduct: Lawyer sentenced to 4 months of jail

  Apr 13 2011 Advocate N.B. Deshmukh has been held guilty of criminal contempt of the Court and sentenced to four months of simple imprisonment for hurling abuses at the judge... more

• UK to shake up civil litigation rules

  Apr 04 2011 The UK government is considering changes to civil litigation rules in an attempt to ensure that the administration of justice is quicker and cheaper. One of the... more

• Funding cuts are destroying access to justice, says ABA president

  Feb 16 2011 Underfunding of the US justice system is threatening the principle of equal justice under law, according to American Bar Association President Stephen N. Zack. In... more

• Pro Bono in New York: are lawyers doing enough?

  Jan 17 2011 New York’s 161,000 registered lawyers are providing an estimated 2 million hours of free legal work each year, but there are still millions of people in the state for... more

• Judicial accountability requires that lawyers be accountabile

  Dec 02 2010 We can’t talk of judicial accountability unless we talk of our own accountability as lawyers’. The phenomenon governing the Bar has not all been enthusing: there... more

• India commits budget to upgrade judiciary

  Nov 23 2010 According to a PIB release, the Minister of Law and Justice Veerappa Moily has stated that the Government has allocated an amount of Rs. 1,470 crore (approximately... more

• Litigation funding on the up

  Nov 16 2010 The New York Times has reported that investors are looking to litigation for new investment opportunities. They fund a wide range of litigation, from medical... more

• More competition means greater access to justice in the UK

  Aug 31 2010 Many have said that access to justice in the UK is under threat with new cuts to legal aid funding, The arrival of ‘Tesco Law’ and difficulties securing indemnity... more

• UK government slashes justice funding

  Aug 17 2010 Access to justice is under threat in the UK following a series of budget cuts. The Ministry of Justice plans to cut £2 billion from it £9 billion budget, while a... more

• Third party litigation funding does not increase access to justice for individuals

  Jun 02 2010 A new study has examined the question of whether the emergence of third party litigation finding has led to increased access to justice for those with limited means.... more