{"id":217,"date":"2006-10-20T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/20\/mass-lawyers-terrified-over-landlord-ag"},"modified":"2006-10-20T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:41:58","slug":"mass-lawyers-terrified-over-landlord-agents-in-housing-cout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/20\/mass-lawyers-terrified-over-landlord-agents-in-housing-cout-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. lawyers terrified over landlord agents in Housing Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><em>Really<\/em>.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslaw.com\/news1020.cfm\">this article<\/a> from <em>Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly<\/em> (Oct. 23, 2006).\u00a0 As attorney David Florio told the Mass. High Court recently: &#8220;[T]he trial courts and the appellate courts could find themselves presiding over cases prosecuted by non-lawyer agents who are paralegals, maintenance men, office managers, real estate agents, collection agents, and even disbarred attorneys. No individual would be required, as a prerequisite to practice law, to be licensed, but only to be an agent, thereby undermining the practice of a law.&#8221; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really.\u00a0 See this article from Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly (Oct. 23, 2006).\u00a0 As attorney David Florio told the Mass. High Court recently: &#8220;[T]he trial courts and the appellate courts could find themselves presiding over cases prosecuted by non-lawyer agents who are paralegals, maintenance men, office managers, real estate agents, collection agents, and even disbarred attorneys. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}