With a shortage of rural lawyers reaching crisis proportions, a special judicial task force is recommending financial incentives to encourage attorneys to practice in less populated areas of Kansas to ensure access to legal services.
The committee's new report released Friday documents the shortage of lawyers in rural Kansas, noting that there are more Kansas attorneys practicing in Kansas City, Missouri, than all of rural Kansas.
"We're in real crisis mode," said Supreme Court Justice K.J. Wall, who . . .
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