In what appears to be a blatant attempt to protect lawyers from having to change with the times, a small group of vocal advocates is using stalling tactics to derail efforts by the Texas Supreme Court to help those who cannot afford a lawyer in a few simple matters.
Richard Zorza's blog post has a good assessment of the situation from a national perspective. There are better solutions than the "delay, study and table" approach advocated by the misguided detractors. And plenty of lawyers are making plenty of money in other states using simpler services.
There is a tsunami of self-represented parties (an "SRL tsunami," I have called it elsewhere) that clogs the halls of our courthouses and costs all clients more in fees paid to their lawyers who have to sit through unnecessarily protracted dockets as self-represented parties bumble and stumble. The Texas Supreme Court is right to look for ways such as standardized forms in simple matters (forms that ALL lawyers and parties can use, by the way, not just nonlawyers).
It makes sense. It is timely. It will work. It needs to happen.
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