Online legal services part of changing landscape
Online legal services are not going away, so traditional attorneys need to adapt to the changing marketplace, according to panelists at a San Diego Law Library event last month.
Education
Law School/Harvard Law School
College: Stanford University
Bar Admissions
California; U.S. District Court, Central and Northern districts of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Practice Areas
Small Business Law; Professional Ethics; Wills and Trusts
Professional Background
Luz E. Herrera is an attorney, a professor and a community innovator. She is an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law California where she recently launched the Small Business Law Center — a clinical program that provides legal services to micro-entrepreneurs and nonprofits.
With her invaluable ability to connect with persons at all levels of national leadership and challenge the existing legal services paradigm, Herrera brings innovative ideas to address the access to civil justice gap and calls for the inclusion of all sectors of the profession in a new legal services paradigm. Herrera is leaving her mark in the legal profession and throughout communities nationwide. In 2005, she founded Community Lawyers, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Compton that facilitates the provision of affordable legal services to underserved communities through community legal education and self-help legal clinics staffed by a network of volunteer attorneys and non-attorney volunteers that support their efforts.
Through her work with Community Lawyers and in establishing the Small Business Law Center at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Herrera is pioneering a model to support public spirited, entrepreneurial lawyers in their efforts to launch successful law practices that assist clients and seek to strengthen communities. Her experience as a solo practitioner in a low-income community has informed her passion for educating individuals about attorneys as business owners. She has been instrumental in developing an attorney incubator program at TJSL to help attorneys start and develop their own law practices.
Professional Affiliations
Herrera’s efforts are informed by her service with other organizations that have a pulse on legal service delivery in California and across the United States. She currently serves on the American Bar Association's Delivery of Legal Services Committee, the board of California Rural Legal Assistance, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act Implementation Committee, and is on the advisory board of the California Lawyer magazine.
Herrera has been featured in articles on community legal services for publications that include the Daily Journal, the Los Angeles Times and Compton Bulletin. In 2009 she was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 100 attorneys in California and the ABA Journal identified her as one of the top 50 lawyers remaking the legal profession. Recent acknowledgements include the Cruz Reynoso Community Service Award from the Mexican American Bar Association (Los Angeles), the Guardian de Justicia Award presented by the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County, the Francisca Flores Community Service Award from the Latina Lawyers Bar Association (Los Angeles) and a Mujeres Destacada award from La Opinion newspaper.
Personal Background
Herrera grew up in Whittier, California.
Online legal services are not going away, so traditional attorneys need to adapt to the changing marketplace, according to panelists at a San Diego Law Library event last month.
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