May 17, 2024, 12-1 p.m.
In 2020, the Supreme Court of Utah relaxed the ABA rule prohibiting non-lawyers from sharing in the ownership of a law firm, creating a regulatory "sandbox" that allows the creation of alternative legal businesses. The State of Arizona implemented a similar reform in 2021. Other states may likely follow suit. These reforms were widely seen as one of the biggest disruptions to the legal profession in more than a century. Proponents argue that it will improve access to justice. Critics fear that allowing them will lead to new concerns over ethics and professionalism.
To give an overview of these innovative reforms and what preliminary conclusions can be drawn from these sandboxes, we are thrilled to welcome Lucy Ricca, the executive director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the legal profession at Stanford Law School.
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Lucy Ricca is the executive director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the legal profession at Stanford Law School. Ricca served as the first executive director of the Utah office of Legal Services Innovation, the new regulator of legal services launched by the Utah Supreme Court that oversaw the Utah sandbox. Ricca is a national expert in efforts to reform regulation of the legal profession to increase innovation, market diversification, and access to justice. Ricca received her B.A. cum laude in history from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.