Legal clinics may have only redistributed existing legal business rather than expand access

Evidence

Legal clinics have primarily attracted middle-class and working-class clients. While they have introduced competition into the provision of legal services, it is unclear whether they have increased the availability of lawyers to those who would not otherwise use their services. It may be that legal clinics have merely displaced traditional firms, redistributing business within the legal profession. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 736

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking later scholarship on whether clinic expansion corresponded with any measurable growth in legal service usage among the previously underserved.
• XREF: connects to: Legal clinics cut costs through scale, paralegals, and standardized forms — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 735; Legal clinics lower fees through scale, paralegals, and standardized forms. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1132

Broader Connections

• Legal clinics lower fees through scale, paralegals, and standardized forms. #complicates (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1132