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Article Excerpt
The California Judicial Council recently approved new court rules allowing "limited scope representation"--also known by the more popular terms "unbundled" or "a la carte" legal services--in all California civil cases. Unbundled services allow clients to hire attorneys for specific tasks--for instance, coaching them through mediation, ghostwriting letters, preparing briefs, handling settlement discussions, or going to trial--rather than full representation, in which a lawyer handles a client's case from start to finish.
California joins a growing number of states that allow limited-scope representation. The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently approved similar rule changes, allowing unbundled services in all civil cases. Other states--including Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Maine, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Washington--allow unbundled services to varying degrees. In November, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts approved a pilot program allowing unbundling in civil cases.
Other states are seriously considering such changes, and several state bar associations and judiciaries have set up task forces to investigate the practical and ethical implications of unbundling.
The concept is not new: Some lawyers have always offered piecemeal...
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