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Elizabeth Booth, a staff attorney at Community Legal Aid Society (right), explains procedure to intern Danielle Gauthier.
access for many human beings. There are more than 1 million entities incorporated in Delaware.5 It would certainly be appro- priate to use these entities to find a path to ensure that Delaware’s human citizens also have access to justice. For example, a $3 fee charged to each of them would allow Delaware to sextuple the general appropriation for legal aid. Such a strat- egy would help to maintain the integrity and legitimacy of the legal system that supports the entity business. More impor- tantly, it would change the trajectory of thousands of lives.
Unlike a lot of the social issues we con- front in a complex world, we can solve this one, at least here in Delaware. Let’s not wait any longer.
NOTES
1. In re Delaware Access to Justice Commission (Del. 2014) (amended order).
2. 372 U.S. 335 (1963).
3. Report of the Subcommittee on the Efficient Delivery and Adequate Funding of Legal Services to the Poor. https://courts.delaware. gov/forms/download.aspx?id=98738
4. Social Return on Investment from Legal Aid Services: A Statewide Analysis. https://delawareccj.org/wp-content/ uploads/2018/03/Social-Return-on- Investment-of-Legal-Aid-Services- final-3.7.2018.pdf
5. https://corp.delaware.gov/aboutagency
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