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A committee exchange over a bill on legal representation turned into a pointed back-and-forth, with Rep. Cecelia Espenoza pressing sponsor Rep. Michael Carter on whether his measure would actually help unrepresented parties or simply force them to prove up their own cases.
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“The unrepresented party now under your bill will be forced to go to court and meet these standards to the judge in order for the judge to make the impartial determination, won't they?”
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Reality is there is a disparity between an individual with one lawyer versus an individual, another lawyer. I'm not saying the lawyers are not doing their best. I'm not saying they're not excellent lawyers that are not as paid as much. What I'm telling you is sometimes there is a disparity of a lawyer while he is doing everything equitable, he's doing everything that he's supposed to be doing. It does not mean that another lawyer is not better than them. And the reality is that's how, sometimes that's how this is working. I never said anyone's acting unethical. May I dialogue, Mr. Chair? You may dialogue, Rep. Espinoza. Rep. Carter in fact, you did say whether two parties were there and one attorney was less capable than the other. That was an issue. So it wasn't the hypothetical of one attorney versus non attorney in your hypothetical. So my question would be, in that circumstance, if there are two attorneys and one fails to properly, properly represent their client, would they be subject to disciplinary conduct for failure to properly represent their client in the best to the best of their ability? We're dialog. You're dialoguing. Vice Chair Carter,…
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