Licensed Legal Paraprofessional Programs Spread

Even as some other efforts to open up the practice of law to non-attorneys have stalled, the licensure of paraprofessionals to help legal consumers primarily in the areas of family law and landlord-tenant law have flourished in recent years, with a marked uptick during the last three years.

Note: Similar programs allowing legal aid workers, court navigators and other so-called “allied professionals” to provide legal assistance in discrete areas of the law also exist, but for the purposes of this map only licensed paraprofessional programs were included.