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Shrinking the gap

SueEasy.com is an interesting site, it is a Web 2.0 site that purports to allow individuals to find lawyers based on the type of claim, including class actions, and provide the lawyer with some information on the prospective client.

One of the oft-heard critiques of lawyers and the legal system is that it is intensely hostile to pro se litigants.  Generally, to be effective in court and successfully prosecute or defend a claim, you need a lawyer.  And that does not even get into the difficulty in acquiring effective legal representation when you are short on funds.

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Justice for . . . all?

A post from The Huffington Post.
What do you do if you are a regular person injured by a product, or denied a job because of your age, or defrauded out of money, or any of things that can happen to people?
Hope that tort reform hasn’t driven every lawyer away from representing individuals.