Community Justice Workers: A New Approach to the Access-to-Justice Problem
By John Foltz
Senior Lawyers,
October 2026
One of the more interesting CLE programs presented by the Illinois State Bar Association this fall dealt with a subject that many lawyers probably have not encountered: Community Justice Workers, or CJWs. That immediately raises a question which occurred to me while listening to the program: What about the unauthorized practice of law?
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