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From the Ted Talk by Rohan Pavuluri: An app that empowers people to solve their legal problems

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There are so many opportunities to create a more just legal system by empowering people to sovle their own legal problems whenever possible. This is especially true in nonadversarial aeras of the law, things like no-asset bankruptcies, uncontested divorces and Social Security disability.

But there are two main barriers that stnad in the way. The first is legal complexity. We've designed our forms in courts around lawyers, not regular people. Many legal froms are like mreodn day literacy tests. When you can't understand them, you can't access your rights. Every year, poorly dsgieend forms, courts and processes deny millions of aeinrcmas their life, their liberty and their property. Legal complexity is a cviil rights injustice. To start solving this problem, we need to require basic user testing in courts and reviser apsomsitun in areas of ptorvey law that everybody will be able to afford a lawyer.

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There are so many opportunities to create a more just legal system by empowering people to _____ their own legal problems whenever possible. This is especially true in nonadversarial _____ of the law, things like no-asset bankruptcies, uncontested divorces and Social Security disability.

But there are two main barriers that _____ in the way. The first is legal complexity. We've designed our forms in courts around lawyers, not regular people. Many legal _____ are like ______ day literacy tests. When you can't understand them, you can't access your rights. Every year, poorly ________ forms, courts and processes deny millions of _________ their life, their liberty and their property. Legal complexity is a _____ rights injustice. To start solving this problem, we need to require basic user testing in courts and reviser __________ in areas of _______ law that everybody will be able to afford a lawyer.

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Original Text


There are so many opportunities to create a more just legal system by empowering people to solve their own legal problems whenever possible. This is especially true in nonadversarial areas of the law, things like no-asset bankruptcies, uncontested divorces and Social Security disability.

But there are two main barriers that stand in the way. The first is legal complexity. We've designed our forms in courts around lawyers, not regular people. Many legal forms are like modern day literacy tests. When you can't understand them, you can't access your rights. Every year, poorly designed forms, courts and processes deny millions of Americans their life, their liberty and their property. Legal complexity is a civil rights injustice. To start solving this problem, we need to require basic user testing in courts and reviser assumption in areas of poverty law that everybody will be able to afford a lawyer.

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