What is the interest of the court system in this evolving method of legal-service delivery?
Judicial officers and staff will presumably benefit from the improvement in accuracy, completeness, and legibility of documents and the greater clarification and improved presentation of issues that limited representation for pro se litigants can provide. California’s Committee on Limited Representation cited the following additional benefits of limited-scope legal assistance: • Increased access to the courts • More pro bono assistance • Clearer presentation of issues and a reduction in errors, continuances, demands on court personnel, and court congestion • Increased access to potential clients who can afford some, but not the entire, traditional model of legal representation Judicial officers also need to understand the ways limited representation may impact their control of proceedings and their role in assisting otherwise unrepresented litigants.
