New Panel to Study Legal Needs of Poor

Today's Post included this article on a new commission be set up to study the (civil) legal needs of the poor, and how to better meet those needs. According to the article, the idea for this commission sprang from a 2003 report by the DC Bar Foundation that found that only 1 of every ten people living in poverty in the District had access to necessary legal services. The order establishing the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission is available here (it's short, read it). Here is a link to another article on the 2003 report that the Post article references. Here is the actual 2003 report.