Melissa Pershing Moss

Retired. Committed to #Codesigning Justice & #LegalEmpowerment. Busy fighting White Supremacy & Christian Nationalism in Flori-duh.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Exactly. There'll never be enough #legalaid, #probono or private #lawyers to bridge the #justicegap. So the very act of saying "go get a lawyer" or "only #attorneys have #authority" in the #justice system is an act of class warfare, intentional or not. #wherestheoutrage #NoPlanB

[Rohan Pavuluri @RPavuluri]

Telling low-income people to "go get a lawyer" when they obviously cannot afford one is the same as Marie Antoinette saying "let them eat cake." It makes no sense, and it's deeply out of touch. But it's the status quo for poor people who show up to courts on their own today.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@inspiredcat @VanderbiltU Congratulations 😻😻😻

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Who is Mike Johnson? Five things to know about the new Republican House speaker https://t.co/XcCANpM348 via @nbcnews

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@inspiredcat This scene is being repeated in small town America, over and over again. We need to set aside our usual pursuits, thinking "it can't happen here" It can. It is. Local governments and schoolboards. Not just governors and state legislatures.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Why are ya'll still on here? Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident. https://t.co/dQOu1FwosW

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Jacksonville City Hall. Where I am. Where are you?

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@edgeofempty @GTeninbaum @SuffolkLITLab @sixfiftyhq @upsolvebk @LegalDesignLab @NuLawLab @LSCtweets @LSNTAP @edgeofempty you would do such an amazing job!!!

[Professor Griggs @ProfessorGriggs]

Happening Now: Oregon Supreme Court considers a supervised pathway to law licensure. Whatever the decision today, THIS is an example of a court truly engaged in self-regulation, w/out delegatory outsourcing. It's OUR profession. WE should dictate the requirements for entry.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Live Florida Sup Ct oral argument challenging current 15 week abortion law under 40+ yr interpretation of FL constitution. 5 of 7 justice=DeSantis appt. 1 justice's wife sponsored 6 week abortion law, that will automatically go into effect 30 days after, if court upholds 15 weeks

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

"Among law student populations, this disparity has spillover effects onto democratic processes and access to legal services, further creating and compounding inequality in the United States" https://t.co/pCRTPfz2g0

[Cat Moon @inspiredcat]

AND the solutions we've crafted over the past 100+ years to meet people's legal needs are woefully imperfect and inadequate. Disturbingly so.

That we as a profession refuse to make any changes absent proof that such changes result in perfect outcomes is absolutely rage-inducing.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@primnimproper_ I don't know you, but you are a friend of @inspiredcat so you must be a good human being. I could say I'm sorry for your loss (and I am) but I really want to mirror back to you that the way your mother passed sucks. Unimaginably. Unfathomably. Inconsolably.

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@inspiredcat 😻 Rock stars!!

[Natalie Anne Knowlton @natalalleycat]

We haven't even had a real, informed debate yet. We have one side being asked to prove the negative and collecting the small amount of data we can while the other is sharing their feelings about an economic (not ethics) restriction rooted in assumption.

https://t.co/x9Xiep8Itt

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

Using @pewresearch data offline population shrinks 7%. In 2000, almost 50% didn't use internet. 25% of respondents aged 65+ didn't compared w/ 4% age 50-64.
https://t.co/I8zHXwDswz

[Melissa Pershing Moss @RouncingTigger]

@inspiredcat @natalalleycat As you should be. 😻

[Natalie Anne Knowlton @natalalleycat]

It's Friday, I'll go harder.

When the UT sandbox launched, "non-lawyer" co-ownership ⬇️50% was classified Low Risk and ⬆️50% was Low/Moderate Risk. Today, ABS structures are classified Low Risk. Why has that changed?

*Data has entered the chat*

*Feelings have left the chat*

[Cat Moon @inspiredcat]

Because the Center is the future of its relevance.

And, this is exactly why the organization will continue to deny reality by replacing leaders committed to serving people with leaders who are committed to serving lawyers.

Sad.

[Cat Moon @inspiredcat]

And, if at this moment in time, the ABA dismantles its Center for Innovation, whether officially or effectively through budget cuts?

There is not a desert in the land big enough to hold the hubris-swollen collective head of this organization.

It needs the Center.