2025 November Florida Hybrid Lunch Presentation

Please join the Florida State Co-Chairs, Jo Ann Engelhardt, Esq., and Kenneth A. Tinkler, for a hybrid lunch and presentation by ABF Research Professor Emeritus, Stephen Daniels.

“The Crucial Question – Deny Legal Help or Allow Some Help by Non-Lawyers: An Innovation’s Odyssey”

11:30 AM ET – Lunch
12:00 PM ET – Presentation

Location:

Carlton Fields, P.A.
700 NW 1st Avenue, Suite 1200
Miami, Florida

Access to justice is an endemic and intractable challenge for the American legal system. This CLE is about an innovation’s odyssey. It explores the expansion and evolution in the states of one response to that intractable challenge, one with far-reaching potential – redefining who can deliver legal services if not licensed attorneys. It is about states as laboratories for innovations authorizing trained and licensed non-lawyers – having a variety of names — to deliver certain legal services without attorney supervision. And the states are indeed laboratories for what is, admittedly, an access experiment. At the outset, no one knew if this innovation would work. As then Washington State Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said in the 2012 order creating the first such non-lawyer program, “No one has a crystal ball … There is simply no way to know the answer to this question without trying it.” Odysseys are about journeys and what a given journey can teach us. In 2025, the question now is what have we learned?

The Fellows gratefully recognize event host:

The Fellows gratefully recognize Gold Sponsors:

Jo Ann Engelhardt, Leadership Fellow