Category Archives: Self-Help Services

Canadian SRL Project Sponsors Dialog Event — A Model for Us all

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

What a great idea. As Julie MacFarlane blogs about the follow up to her Canadian SRL Report: 60 people gathered in Windsor to discuss the research report – 15 of them SRL’s from the study. The other 45 guests included … Continue reading →

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Important New Canadian Report Highlights Challenges Facing the Self-Represented and Innovation and Research Lessons for the US

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

An important new report, The National Self-Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants, by Dr. Julie MacFarlane, supported by grants from the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Law Foundation of Alberta, and the Law Foundation of … Continue reading →

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Alaska Early Resolution Project Using Pro Bono

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Alaska has a great Early Resolution Project in which pro bono attorneys focus on cases which are settlement ready, as screened by the self-help center.  As the linked document explains: Early intervention is an effective component of settlement in family law … Continue reading →

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JOLT Publishes Additinal LSC Tech Summit Papers Online

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

More papers from the LSC Summit on Technology and Access to Justice have now been posted online by Harvard’s Journal of Law and Technology, adding to those already published in the journal itself. The papers are: Summit on the Use … Continue reading →

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Texas Chief Justice State of the Judiciary Message

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Wallace Jefferson, the inspiring Chief Justice of Texas, has just issued his State of the Judiciary Message. I have bolded the language that might be most useful to quote, but the whole quote, and indeed the whole Message is worthy … Continue reading →

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Jim Greiner Asks For Help with SRL Courtroom Scripts

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

Harvard’s Jim Greiner, randomized study guru, asks for help identifying model self-represented litigant courtroom scripts. Specifically, he is working on a project in which litigants would be given written scripts that they could use orally in court to help them … Continue reading →

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Funded Technical Assistance on Access Availalbe to Courts from NCSC Center on Court Acces for All

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

Funded technical assistance on access to justice is now available to Courts from the NCSC Center on Court Acces for All.  This resource could be very helpful.  Here is the website  for  the assistance program. The forms this assistance might … Continue reading →

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New Access Brief

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

The Center on Court Access to Justice for All, with which I am affiliated, has just released its second Access Brief, on Forms and Document assembly. Given that this Brief has the imprimatur of the National Center for State Courts, … Continue reading →

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Center for Court Access to Justice for All Issues First Accss Brief on Self-Help Services

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

This Brief is the first of a series of Access Briefs, developed by the National Center for State Court’s new Center for Court Access to Justice for All. The Brief, like those to follow, is a short summary of the … Continue reading →

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Self-Represented Litigation Network Plans Equal Justice Conference Pre-Conference

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

Once again this coming year, the Self-Represented Litigation Network will be hosting a pre-conference in association with the NLADA/ABA Equal Justice Conference.  The pre-conference will be May 8, 2013, and the main conference will be May 9-11.  As usual, there … Continue reading →

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What Happens When a Federal Court Pays Attention to the Self-Represented — the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court Is A Model for Us All

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

The Central District of California Bankruptcy Court has released its report on the self-represented. Self-represented, or pro se, litigants comprise over one quarter of the debtors filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. In early … Continue reading →

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Non-Lawyer Practice — Moving the New York Discussion Forward

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

I blogged recently about testimony at the New York Access to Justice hearings about the potential of non-lawyer practice. I am now able to post the actual testimony that was briefly referenced in the Reuters story. Professor Gillian Hadfield of … Continue reading →

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Advocacy at New York Hearing for Non-Lawyer Access Innovations

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

This may be a straw in the wind. Reuters, in their report of the second of this year’s New York State hearings on Access to Justice included the following: But money alone will not solve the problem, according to testimony … Continue reading →

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Child Support Agencies’ Interest in Access to Justice

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

Last week I attended the Western Interstate Child Support Enforcement Council Conference in Jackson Hole Wyoming.  I was part of a session on the implications of Turner v. Rogers. I talked to people from many states (Wyoming, California, and Colorado … Continue reading →

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A Big Step for Pro Se Forms — Supreme Court Access to Justice

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

As reported by the ABA Journal and the AP (in Seattle Times here), on Tuesday, the Supreme Court granted cert in two self-represented cases.  And, as the ABA Journal detailed “One was written in longhand, in pencil, by an inmate … Continue reading →

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