Sunday, August 7, 2022

Oregon will allow licensed paralegals to provide limited legal services

As you probably know, in an attempt to provide better access to legal services, a few jurisdictions have allowed paralegals and other people not admitted to the profession (aka "non-lawyers") to provide limited legal services under certain conditions.  Washington state was the first one, although it later abandoned the program.  

Today I am writing about this to report that the Oregon Supreme Court recently approved a program that allows licensed paralegals to provide limited legal services in family law and landlord-tenant cases.

You can read the full story here or check this short "fact sheet" that lists the types of services that licensed paralegals will be allowed to provide.   The ABA Journal has more on the story here.

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