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500 Florida lawyers are asking the state Supreme Court to raise bar dues by a hundred dollars a year, from 265 to 365 dollars.

The money would be used to provide legal services for the poor. But the Bar leadership is pushing back. President Eugene Pettis says lawyers have already given million in time and money. He calls legal access a society wide problem much like hunger. “But when you have that crisis, you don’t go to the local grocery store and say give us more of your food…put it on sale. We come together as a community and say let us all come together to solver this crisis” says Pettis.

The incoming Bar President plans a summit of state leaders later this summer to work on solution for providing legal aid. Even when the current system was functioning at full capacity, only one in five was getting the legal help needed.