Increasing Tenants’ Access to Counsel Has Raised Court Efficiency, Fairness, Judges Say (New York Law Journal)

New York Law Journal, September 24, 2018

Increasing Tenants’ Access to Counsel Has Raised Court Efficiency, Fairness, Judges Say

“Progress toward universal access to counsel for tenants in New York City has led to a more fair and balanced courtroom and has—so far—not overwhelmed the city’s housing courts with an influx of new litigation, judges from the city’s courts testified at a public hearing in Albany on Monday….New York City Bar Association president Roger Juan Maldonado testified later in the hearing that his group would like to see the same idea applied to other jurisdictions, like consumer protection cases. ‘In consumer debt cases, having an attorney makes enormous difference,’ Maldonado said.”

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