Utah State Bar Futures Report:

“In today’s globally competitive and technologically advanced world, every industry, every occupation and every job feel the impacts of disruption. Utah’s legal services are no exception and the Futures Commission plotted a thoughtful path forward.”~NATALIE GOCHNOUR, Associate Dean, David Eccles School of Business

Resources from the Report:

Implemented Programs

• LicensedLawyer.org – Online Attorney/Client Matching Service.
• Utah Supreme Court Task Force to Study Limited Legal Licensing (including information about the task force, reports, related articles, and reports from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, New York, Oregon, and Washington)
• Innovation in Practice Committee
• Utah Bar Practice Portal Project – Now in public beta release

Utah Resources

• Open Legal Services
• State of Utah Division of Corporation’s “One Stop” site for registering small businesses
• State of Utah’s Small Business Health Insurance Marketplace
• Utah State Bar and Utah Law Review On Law September 27, 2013 Symposium papers on the Twin Crises in the Law
• Utah State Bar survey to members regarding law students, law school issues (2015)
• Utah State Bar survey to members of Young Lawyers Division (2015)

Utah State Courts

• Online Court Assistance Program
• Self-Help Resources
• Utah Code of Judicial Administration, Rule 14-705
• Utah Judicial Council’s Standing Committee on Resources for Self-Represented Parties
  (including information about the committee, surveys, reports, related articles, the 2007 Justice Gap report, and the committee’s various strategic plans)
• Utah Rules of Professional Conduct

Additional Resources

• Alaska State Bar Unbundled Section (example of bar site with unbundled resources)
• Arizona (The Judicial Branch of Arizona’s mandatory arbitration program to reduce costs)
• American Bar Association Legal Profession Statistics
• American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services Resource Center (a rich assembly of information on innovative practice models around the country)
• American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services Year in Review 2014 (articles and other resources on legal services delivery models especially for unbundled practice and incubators)
• American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education Report and Recommendations
• Susan Beck, Emerging Technology Shapes Future of Law, The American Lawyer, August 4, 2014
• California Civil Justice Strategies Task Force Report and Recommendations
• Canadian Bar Association Futures Initiative (including reports and other materials)
• JustiServ (commercial site; example of lawyer directory service)
• Uniform Bar Exam
• Cary Spivak, Bankruptcy petition preparers running afoul of law, Journal Sentinel, August 5, 201