Gillian Hadfield

Law books

How a century-old rule is keeping the American legal profession from innovating like its foreign colleagues

October 21, 2014
Technology

If you want to get legal advice in Canada, you can swing by Wal-Mart. And in the UK, legal advice is handed out in grocery stores. But a rule implemented more than 100 years ago in the US keeps legal advice largely out of reach for most Americans and keeps innovations from changing the stodgy legal field.

How a century-old rule is keeping the American legal profession from innovating like its foreign colleagues

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