Courting trouble: emergence of common-law courts raises concerns among critics

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Self-proclaimed common-law courts have sprung up in a dozen states or more, with what critics call a detrimental effect on the legitimate court system. The movement's activists call state and federal courts 'equity courts,' and acknowledge their authority only over contract, admiralty, and interstate commerce matters. Common-law courts have indicted and threatened public officials, issued phony judgments and liens, and clogged state and federal courts with paperwork. They also undermine the authority of existing courts.

Innovations, Practice, Political activists, Activists, Courts

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Tri-state training; supreme courts in Maine, N.H. and Vt. mull plan requiring joint skills classes for would-be lawyers

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A task force is asking the supreme courts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine to consider the establishment of a skills course that may permit bar applicants to be licensed in all 3 states. The states established the task force of attorneys, judges, and laypeople to consider concerns raised by a 1992 ABA task force report on law schools and the profession. The report concluded that law school graduates do not show sufficient development in the skills necessary to practice law.

Attorneys, Lawyers, Law, Clinical legal education, Training

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