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126 Harv. L. Rev. 901 (2012-2013)
The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future

handle is hein.journals/hlr126 and id is 919 raw text is: ARTICLE THE LIMITS OF UNBUNDLED LEGAL ASSISTANCE: A RANDOMIZED STUDY IN A MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT COURT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Hennessy CONTENTS IN T R O D U C T IO N ............................................................................................................................904 I. L IT ER AT U R E R EVIE W .........................................................................................................909 A. Summary Eviction Proceedings......................................................................................910 B. Limited or Unbundled Representation ..........................................................................911 II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND, LEGAL SETTING, STUDY DESIGN, AND FIELD OPERATION: ABBREVIATED DESCRIPTION...................................................................913 III. Q UAN TITATIVE R ESULTS ...................................................................................................9I9 A. The Balance Between Treated and Control Groups .....................................................921 B . A ttorn ey U sage ..................................................................................................................924 C. Three Critical Sets of Outcomes, Plus Some Others ....................................................925 i. Possession Outcomes ..................................................................................................926 2. Financial Consequences..............................................................................................928 3. C ou rt B u rd en .............................................................................................................932 4. Additional Outcomes...................................................................................................934 D. Possible Explanations of Our Results .......................................................................936 i. O utreach, Intake, and Screening...............................................................................937 2. Confrontational Litigation Style ...............................................................................941 3. Complication in the Applicable Law.........................................................................942 4. The Adjudicatory System ..........................................................................................942 5. The Need for Prehearing Factual Development ......................................................944 6. M odel of Service D elivery............................................................................... ..........945 7. Other Explanations .....................................................................................................947 E. Limits of the Analysis.......................................................................................................948 i. Pieces of Litigation as Study Units ............................................................................948 2. Only Some Socioeconomic Consequences.................................................................949 F. Overgeneralization and Undergeneralization .................................................................950 IV. FUTURE RESEARCH: EXPANDING THE RESEARCH AGENDA ..................................951 A. A Broader Range of Outcomes ........................................................................................952 B. A Broader Range of Interventions: Using Represented Cases as a Yardstick.......954 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................959 901

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