Abstract:
This research was a mixed methods research by using both quantitative and qualitative research models aims to study the measure to increase efficiency of volunteer lawyers and various factors that affect the development approach of the effectiveness of volunteer lawyers along with to offer guidance for developing volunteer lawyers. The studied sample in the quantitative research were 369 service users who have experienced on consultations with volunteer lawyers by using questionnaires as a tool for data collection. The statistical data analysis was a percentage, mean, standard deviation, analysis of variance, and multiple classifications. The qualitative research was specified sampling by using an in-depth interview as a tool with the president of the lawyer council, and 2 volunteer lawyers, and collected data from an interview template. Most of the samples were male with an age of 41-50 years, married status, graduated bachelor's degree, self-employment/merchants with a monthly income more than 25,000 baht, received the information about the volunteer lawyers from the internet and have been consulted for the first time. The hypothesis testing revealed the 4 factors that affecting the development approach of the effectiveness of volunteer lawyers consisted of confidence and trust, satisfaction in using the consultation service, ethics of volunteer lawyers, and attitudes in counselling which include gender (Sig = 0.000), age (Sig = 0.000), marital status (Sig = 0.000), education level (Sig = 0.000), occupation (Sig = 0.000), monthly income (Sig = 0.000), knowing the volunteer lawyers (Sig = 0.000) and the number of times consulting case consultation service from volunteer lawyers (Sig = 0.000) with statistical significance at 0.05. The suggestions from this study were the knowledge, morality, and ethics of volunteer lawyers should be reinforced continuously and concretely from the lawyer council to increase the efficiency and improve volunteer lawyers' performance in the future. Additionally, the lawyer council should be established policies to set up a training process for those who take a bar examination as the assistant volunteer lawyers before becoming a volunteer lawyer to develop and increase efficiency on a legal consultation service.