NFPA Advocacy
This page documents NFPA’s advocacy efforts with national organizations, governmental agencies, and state governments. If you have updates, historical documents, or other relevant information to add to this page, please send it in an email to positionsdir@paralegals.org with the subject line “Advocacy Webpage.”
If your association needs support from NFPA for state-level policy issues, please email positionsdir@paralegals.org with the subject line “Advocacy Assistance.”
ABA Correspondence
- NFPA Letter to ABA regarding Paralegal definition change (2018)
- NFPA Comments to ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education (2013)
- NFPA Comments to ABA Discussion Draft on Alternative Law Practice Structure (2012)
- NFPA Response to ABA on Draft Definition of the Practice of Law (2002)
- ABA Commission on Nonlawyer Practice Report (1995)
- NFPA Response to ABA Commission on Nonlawyer Practice Report (1995)
National Advocacy
State Specific Proposals
- NFPA Statement in support of Report and Recommendations of Minnesota Standing Committee for the Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Project (2/2022)
- Minnesota Paralegal Association Statement in support of Report and Recommendations of Minnesota Standing Committee for the Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Project (2/2022)
- NFPA Statement to New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee in support of HB 1343, a bill to allow limited legal services to be provided by certain paraprofessionals (1/2022).
- Paralegal Association of New Hampshire's statement to the New Hampshire Judiciary Committee in support of HB 1343, a bill to allow limited legal services to be provided by certain paraprofessionals (1/2022).
- NFPA Statement to the Oregon State Bar in support of the Oregon Paraprofessional Licensing Implementation Committee Recommendations (1/2022).
- NFPA Statement to the State Bar of California in support of the California Paraprofessional Program Working Group Report and Recommendations (12/2021).
- NFPA Statement to Supreme Court of Washington state in opposition to Sunsetting of LLLT Program (2020).
- NFPA Statement in Support of Implementation of Proposed Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Program (Minnesota) (2020).
- Minnesota Paralegal Association Statement in Support of Proposed Legal Paraprofessional Pilot Program (2020).
- Connecticut Bar Association Paralegal Division voluntary regulation program proposal (2017).
- NFPA Opposition to Louisiana HB453 & HB661 (2017).
- Baton Rogue Paralegal Association Opposition to Louisiana HB453 & HB661 (2017).
- West Virginia: NFPA Response to HB2438 "Certified Legal Assistant Act" (2013).
- New York: Comments to NY Task Force to Expand Civil Legal Services (2013).
- NFPA Response to Connecticut HB 6477 (2011).
- West Virginia: NFPA Response to HB3302 Certified Legal Assistant Act (2010).
- Nevada: Letter to the Honorable Chief Justice Mark Gibbons (2009).
- NFPA Response to FL Supreme Court re FL Registered Paralegal (2008).
- NFPA's response to "proposed Rules Governing the Unauthorized Practice of Law" Nebraska (2003).
- New Hampshire: NFPA's Response to 2003 Senate Bill Number 83 (2003).
- North Carolina: Response to Senate Bill 922/House Bill 957 Paralegal Profession Act (2003).
- Illinois: IPA Oral Comments to the Supreme Court Rules Committee on Proposed Rule Establishing a Supreme Court Commission on the Unauthorized Practice of Law (2002).
- NFPA response to Arizona UPL Committee (2001).
- Second Response to Hawaii's Regulating of Paralegal, Legal Assistants, and Lawyer Assistants (2001).
- NFPA's Response to CA Senate Bill AB 1761 (2000).
- Response of the San Francisco Paralegal Association to Assembly Bill 1761 (2000).
- First Response to Hawaii's Regulating Paralegal, Legal Assistants and Lawyer Assistants Response regarding Hawaii Task Force Proposing Amendment to Rule 5.3 of Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct (2000).
- Response to New Jersey Supreme Court Regarding the Report of the Supreme Court Of New Jersey Standing Committee on Paralegal Education and Regulation (1999).
