Jude Pate
36:37 - 36:59
"We live in a legal desert. We do not have enough lawyers to begin to service the needs, especially in rural Alaska, in the villages."
“We live in a legal desert. We do not have enough lawyers to begin to service the needs, especially in rural Alaska, in the villages.”
- Speaker
- Jude Pate
- Timestamp
- 36:37 – 36:59
- Transcript
- Native Federation Video 2526606721442955
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
There's a couple other ways that we're helping the Alaska court system is hearing your voices. One is community justice workers. We live in a legal desert. We do not have enough lawyers to begin to service the needs, especially in rural Alaska, in the villages. And together with Alaska Legal Services, we're helping make sure that community justice workers, those are non-attorneys, but they're trained, and they can go in and provide services, basic services for you.
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