Stanford ‘s Deborah Rhode – Director of Stanford Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession – explores problems regarding the legal profession in her new book, “The Trouble With Lawyers”. In an interview with the Recorder she is asked “What is the biggest challenge that the American bar is facing today?” To which she answers “I think it is a shameful irony that the nation with one of the world’s highest concentration of lawyers does such a poor job of making their services available to those who need help most. Over four-fifths of the legal needs of poor individuals are not being met. And that’s a problem with enormous social costs.”
This brings to mind something Marianne Williamson (a luminary and Internationally acclaimed lecturer and author of nine books) stated in a lecture held this evening. In essence that in our society the population that needs the most help is the least equipped to acquire said help because of the lack of funds.