At the start of the fall semester, attorney Kimball Parker began a new class with nine Brigham Young University law students and a lofty goal: Find an area of law that is difficult for people to navigate and provide a solution.
Parker and the students who were enrolled in the LawX course gathered data from the state courts and quickly decided they would tackle the issue of debt-collection lawsuits.
The class learned that debt collectors in the past five years had filed more than 330,000 lawsuits against Utahns. More than 98 percent of those sued dont hire an attorney. And in some years, over 80 percent of those sued did not respond, causing them to automatically lose their cases.
We basically stumbled upon the biggest problem…
Read the full article at: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/01/30/byu-law-students-create-online-tool-to-help-utahns-fight-debt-collectors-in-court-without-a-lawyer/