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<span><span>This book responds to the common objections to alternative business structures, describes the opportunities that such structures offer, exposes how lawyer self-regulation operates to obstruct the modernization of legal services, and includes interviews with persons who have experience with alternative legal service providers in other countries.</span></span>

<span><span>Preface</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction</span></span>
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<span><span>Part I: The Opposition to Alternative Structures</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: Alternative Structures will Undermine Professionalism and Ethics</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: There Is No Way to Regulate Alternative Structures</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: The Adoption of Alternative Structures Will Jeopardize Self-Regulation of the Profession</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: There is No Demonstrated Need, Demand, or Problem</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: New Delivery Models Can be Developed Without Changing Rule 5.4</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: The Payment of Salary is Adequate Compensation for Non-Lawyers</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: No One in Their Right Mind Would Want to Invest in a Law Firm</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: Alternative Structures Will Lead to a Consolidated Market Controlled by Large Law Firms</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 9: Alternative Structures Cannot Help Those Who Canot Pay for Legal Services</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 10: Alternative Structures Will Make Things Harder for Un- and Underemployed Lawyers</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 11: The Burden of Proof Has Not Been Met</span></span>
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<span><span>Part II: The Opportunities Offered by Alternative Structures</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 12: Opportunities for Funding for Legal Aid</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 13: Opportunities for Downstream Markets and the Economy as a Whole</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 14: Opportunities for Lawyers</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 15: Opportunities for In-House Legal Departments in the Public and Private Sectors</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 16: Opportunities for an Improved Regulatory Approach</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 17: Opportunities for Failure</span></span>
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<span><span>Part III: Access to Justice</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 18: Unacknowledged Complexity</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 19: Access to Justice Comes in All Shapes and Sizes, Sometimes Obvious and Sometimes Not</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 20: Unmet Need as Human Rights Crisis</span></span>
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<span><span>Part IV: The (Non)-Regulation of Legal Services and the World Stage</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction to Part IV</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 21: Abdication of Regulatory Power</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 22: International Obligations and Commitments</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 23: Endless Objections and Calls for Evidence and the Lawyer Monopoly on Legal Services (Or, Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too)</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 24: Good Governance Requires…Actual Governance</span></span>
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<span><span>Part V: Stories (Letting the Old Lady Scream)</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 25: Stories</span></span>
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<span><span>Tom Curran, CEO, Kings Court Trust</span></span>
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<span><span>Alexander Hamilton, CEO, Radiant Law</span></span>
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<span><span>John Kain, Managing Director, Kain C+C</span></span>
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<span><span>Christopher Mills, Partner and COO, Schillings</span></span>
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<span><span>Ken Jagger, CEO, AdventBalance</span></span>
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<span><span>David Simon, Chair, Triton Global</span></span>
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<span><span>Luke Geary, Managing Partner, Salvos Legal and Salvos Legal Humanitarian</span></span>
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<span><span>Jenny Holloway, Associate Dean, Nottingham Law School and Nick Johnson, Pro Bono Director, Nottingham Law School Legal Advice Centre</span></span>
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<span><span>Archana Makol, Director, BT Law Ltd.</span></span>
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<span><span>Greg Tucker, CEO, Maurice Blackburn</span></span>
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<span><span>Dina Tutungi, General Manager—Personal Injury Victoria, Slater and Gordon Lawyers</span></span>
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<span><span>Jordan Mayo, Managing Director, Smedvig Capital</span></span>
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<span><span>Elisabeth Davies, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel</span></span>
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<span><span>Michael McDevitt, Co-Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer, Tandem Legal Group</span></span>
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<span><span>Monica Goyal, Founder and Principal, Aluvion Law</span></span>
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<span><span>David Clementi</span></span>

<span><span>Laura Snyder </span><span>has been a lawyer, both in law firms and as in-house counsel, for over twenty years. She received her JD from the University of Illinois, a DEA from the University of Paris I, and a TRIUM Executive MBA.</span></span>