‘An enduring access-to-justice crisis leaves most low- and middle-income people without meaningful assistance for civil legal problems. In response, several U.S. jurisdictions have experimented with licensing legal paraprofessionals—such as Limited License Legal Technicians (LLLTs)—to provide a circumscribed set of services directly to the public. Using Washington State’s pioneering LLLT program and its successors as a case study, this Article argues that paraprofessional reforms have under-delivered because they replicate key features of the traditional professional model: substantial educational prerequisites, supervised practice requirements, and high-stakes examinations that raise entry costs, limit supply, and constrain scalability.’
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