A new volume, edited by Rhode Center Co-Directors and Stanford Law School professors David Freeman Engstrom and Nora Freeman Engstrom (and available open access on Cambridge Core), brings together leading legal scholars and practitioners to propose new conceptual frameworks for reform, drawing lessons from other professions, industries, and places, both within the United States and across the world. Rethinking the Lawyers’ Monopoly: Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services seeks to help shape and steer the coming revolution in the legal services marketplace.

To bring these discussions off the page, the Rhode Center has launched a four-part webinar series exploring various facets of the lawyers’ monopoly. Our first session sets the stage, considering diverse frameworks to guide how we think about the changing market for legal services. The second focuses on existing reforms in the market for legal services. This third session applies a comparative lens, focusing on lessons to be learned from other industries and other places, regarding both loosening restrictions on the legal services market and responding to the rise of new providers and technologies.

We invite you to register for the entire webinar series:

• Lawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 1: Conceptualizing Legal Services Regulation
• Lawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 2: Lessons from the Field: On-the-Ground Efforts to Effect Positive Regulatory Innovations
• Lawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 3: The Comparative Lens
• Lawyers’ Monopoly Webinar Series 4: TBA