Gillian Hadfield

Law books

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

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.