The Maryland General Assembly will consider legislation this coming session that would give financially strapped tenants facing potential eviction a right to counsel at their court hearings, leaders of the legislature’s two judiciary committees said Tuesday. Funding for the legal ...

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Legal technology was not a career path when Matthew Stubenberg graduated from law school in 2013, but his interest in computers and coding -- combined with a growing recognition that computers could help increase access to justice -- have landed him in the burgeoning industry.

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Increasing access to justice will proceed more smoothly if we contemporaneously address and temper the enhanced expectations honestly and forthrightly

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