Rural Legal Resources Project: Strategic Plan

The American Bar Association considers any county with less than one attorney per 1000 residents to be a legal desert. By this definition, 40% of Colorado’s 64 counties are legal deserts. Having limited access to attorneys and other legal resources makes it difficult for people to find positive legal solutions to their life problems

2024

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Rural communities across Colorado have seen a decline in the number of many different types of professional service providers. Attorneys are no exception. New attorneys are not moving to rural Colorado at a rate that replaces existing attorneys who are leaving the practice of law. Scarcity of lawyers affects the health and well-being of Colorado’s rural communities and its residents.

This Strategic Plan outlines the Colorado Access to Justice Commission’s efforts to expand existing legal resources and generate innovative new forms of legal support in some of Colorado’s most underserved rural legal deserts. 

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