Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
This policy briefing will explore: (1) the growing wave of “Right to Counsel” legislation expanding access to justice in cities and states across the country; and (2) the Consumer Education Foundation’s groundbreaking Model State Consumer Protection Statute, designed to push back against the corporate takeover of state civil legal systems.
Join us as we speak with John Pollock (Coordinator of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel), Rasheedah Phillips (PolicyLink Director of Housing and advocate in Philadelphia’s recent Right to Counsel campaign), and Harvey Rosenfield (founder of Consumer Education Foundation and co-author of Reboot Required: The Civil Justice System Has Crashed) to explore what you can do to reform your state’s civil legal system to better realize the ideal: “Equal Justice Under Law.”
This policy briefing will explore: (1) the growing wave of “Right to Counsel” legislation expanding access to justice in cities and states across the country; and (2) the Consumer Education Foundation’s groundbreaking Model State Consumer Protection Statute, designed to push back against the corporate takeover of state civil legal systems.
Join us as we speak with John Pollock (Coordinator of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel), Rasheedah Phillips (PolicyLink Director of Housing and advocate in Philadelphia’s recent Right to Counsel campaign), and Harvey Rosenfield (founder of Consumer Education Foundation and co-author of Reboot Required: The Civil Justice System Has Crashed) to explore what you can do to reform your state’s civil legal system to better realize the ideal: “Equal Justice Under Law.”
