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The Lawyer Accountability Project works to make lawyers more responsive
to the needs of legal consumers and to empower legal consumers to
protect themselves from negligent, unscrupulous and incompetent attorneys.
Through our well-known Report Cards, appellate litigation, media
campaigns, legislative work, collaboration with bar associations, white
paper releases and grassroots lobbying, HALT has been on the forefront
of fights to improve systems in place to weed out unethical lawyers and
provide recourse to victimized legal consumers.
The Lawyer Accountability Project advocates increased public regulation
and less leniency, secrecy and delay in the attorney discipline system,
fee dispute mediation structure and client protection programs. We also
urge local legislators to extend consumer fraud law application to
lawyer misconduct. In addition, we support more workable standards for
legal malpractice lawsuits and requirements that lawyers carry a minimum
level of malpractice insurance.
How Accountable is the Civil Justice System? Look at the numbers!
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