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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

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