Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly, 9781009528542
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AI, access to justice, and reform threaten the lawyers’ monopoly.
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Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly

access to justice and the future of legal services

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    408 pages

  • Release Date

    31 July 2025

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Summary

The Legal Labyrinth: Reimagining Legal Services in the Age of Disruption

For decades, American lawyers have enjoyed a monopoly over legal services, built upon strict unauthorized practice of law rules and prohibitions on nonlawyer ownership of law firms. Now, though, this monopoly is under threat—challenged by the one-two punch of new AI-driven technologies and a staggering access-to-justice crisis, which sees most Americans priced out of the market for legal services.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781009528542
ISBN-10:1009528548
Author:David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:408
Release Date:31 July 2025
Weight:581g
About The Author

David Freeman Engstrom

David Freeman Engstrom is the LSVF Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. An award-winning scholar, longtime litigator, and nationally recognized expert on procedure and law and technology, Engstrom is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as Reporter for Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication, a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Nora Freeman Engstrom is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University, and she also holds the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter’s Chair of the American Law Institute. A nationally recognized authority on tort law, professional responsibility, and complex litigation, she is the author of numerous award-winning scholarly articles, the co-author of two leading casebooks, and a Reporter for two Third Restatement of Torts projects.

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