As promised, I’m not done writing about
the ATILS initial recommendations that have been put out for public
comment in California.
In fact, I’m here in San Francisco for the next few days
at the APRL meeting where there will also be a public forum about
the recommendations on August 10.
The public comment period continues until September 23, but if
the sentiment that gets expressed at the hearing is anything like
the feedback during the public comment period, there may be
pitchforks and torches.
It should come as no surprise to those paying attention but
California lawyers are scared and uninterested in embracing reform
of the way legal services are delivered. While I cannot find
anywhere online to actually read the comments that have been
submitted so far, you can access something of a spreadsheet here that is a tally of
favorable or opposed submissions. People so far even have
overwhelmingly commented against doing the easy stuff I mentioned in my prior post.
