The Supreme Court is weighing a Florida Bar panel’s recommendations for improving access to legal services, proposals that run the gamut from a commission to coordinate access for self-represented litigants, to expanded use of certified legal interns and better promotion of pre-paid legal service plans.

“This report sets forth pragmatic and realistic efforts that can be implemented with relative ease and speed to make meaningful progress on access issues in the near term,” the report states.

The Special Committee on Greater Public Access to Legal Services was formed last year after the Supreme Court, at the Bar’s urging, declined to adopt most of the recommendations of its “Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services” — including the testing non-lawyer ownership of firms, fee-splitting, and broadly expanding the work paralegals can perform.