The Texas Supreme Court has some new ideas about tackling the justice gap that’s keeping poor and middle-income people from being able to afford lawyers.

Those ideas, identified in a Dec. 6 report by the high court’s Commission to Expand Civil Legal Services, include creating a statewide referral system to send modest-means clients to lawyers whom they can afford, supporting legal incubators to teach law students to make a living representing those clients, and launching an online portal for lawyers to bid on representing clients who post about their legal problems.

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