Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas, one of the major driving forces behind his state’s groundbreaking reforms opening up the legal marketplace to nontraditional providers, recently announced that he will be retiring from the bench to join a major law firm opening an office in the state’s capital.
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Legal Rebels
February 1, 2021, 1:10 am CST
Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas: “It is one thing to be a visionary, it is another thing to be a working visionary.” Photo by Benjamin Hager/ABA Journal
Utah Supreme Court Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas is fond of saying that trying to tackle the growing justice gap with the same strategies is “Einstein’s definition of insanity.”
One key reason he says that is because of the size of the problem. The Legal Services Corp. reported in 2017 that low-income Americans receive inadequate or no professional legal help for 86% of the civil legal problems they face annually.