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Ind. Admission & Discipline Rule 1.2
Legal Need
Effective October 15, 2024
For purposes of these rules, the following terms identify areas of high legal need:
(a) Rural County. Any county with a total population less than 40,000, with a population
density of less than 100 people per square mile, and the population of the largest city in
the county is less than 10,000.
(b) Legal Desert. Any county or zip code within a non-rural county that has a ratio of less
than 1.0 for attorneys (by business address) to total population.
(c) Underserved Communities. Communities with insufficient attorneys to serve legal
needs as determined by the Indiana Office of Judicial Administration based on data.
The IOJA shall maintain and publish a list of the areas in Indiana that meet these definitions.
Provenance
- Source
- rules.incourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-02
- Edition
- supplied-in-21-2026-08-01
- Content hash
954a9656fbf243d5cc870cb8aae3774ae6b97a938138a117ac3d4a7a76f21c81
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