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Jim Greiner Asks “What is Access to Justice For?”
Jim Greiner, in a recent two part post for the Haarvard Law and Policy Review (here and here), urges that we need to decide what we are trying to achieve in our access work. He points out that without a … Continue reading
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Please Help Mitigate Downside of Headline of Excellent Washington Post Article on NonLawyers
Robert Ambrogi has an excellent article in today’s Washington (DC) Post on the Washington State Limited License Legal Technicians initiative. Anyone interested should read and share. Nothing in this post should be read to undercut the conclusion that this is … Continue reading
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Building the ATJ Communication Capacity While Enhancing Public Awareness of Issues of Law and Poverty
It occurred to me that the way that Voices for Civil Justice has responded to the recent Justice Department Report on Ferguson provides an opportunity to see how our access community is gaining in sophistication and effectiveness. Those who are … Continue reading
Posted in Communications Strategy, Legal Aid
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Why the New Judicial Ethics Rules on SRLs are Unlikely to Increase Complaints About Judges
I have recently been involved in a discussion about whether rules authorizing judges to be more engaged with litigants in self-represented cases might increase complaints about judges, specifically for their failure to be more engaged. These rules (or raher usually … Continue reading
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Exciting Job Position at ABA on Access to Justice.
The ABA is listing the following job: Director of the ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiative This position serves as the Director of the ABA Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives. The Resource Center, operating under the … Continue reading
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Nice Development for Incubators
The International Justice Center for Postgraduate Development at Touro Law Center and Lexis have announced an arrangement by which lawyers in incubator and residence type programs will get a year’s free access to Lexis tools. This is obviously good news … Continue reading
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Tomorrow, Fri Feb 27, is Early Registration Deadline for EJC, Scheduled Just After SRL Pre-Conference
Tomorrow, Friday February 27 is the early registration deadline for the EJC Conference in Austin this May. The SRL Pre-Conference is May 6, and the SRL Pre-Conference May 7-9. In addition to a full day of information, engagement, and networking … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Decision on Teeth Whitening Regulation Has Interesting Implications for Bar Monopoly
Yesterday the US Supreme Court ruled in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission. SCOTUS Analysis here. Opinion here. NYT here. The Times story: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a state dental board controlled by … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Trust, Non-Lawyer Practice, Supreme Court
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Nonlawyer Courtroom Navigator Follow-Up — Initial NY Report shows Value and Impact
Now we can read the full Navigator Report that led NY Chief Justice Lippman to report on the success of the Project and to announce his plan to propose to the legislature “legislation this year that calls for a further … Continue reading
Steps Forward in Nonlawyer Innovations in New York CJ’s Speech
Good news on nonlawyer innovations (which I like to call Beyond Lawyer Roles) from Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman’s recent State of the Judiciary Speech. In our fight to close the jstice gap in New York State, non-lawyers have been an … Continue reading
Core Strategies for Legal System Reform
I have been thinking recently about what we might think of as the core strategies for justice system reform, and here are some preliminary suggestions, on which I welcome debate: 1. Set Ambitious Goals Grounded in Core Values and Mission … Continue reading
Child Support Proposals in the President’s Budget Would Support Research Into Innovative Approaches
Mark Greenberg, Acting Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families has this to say in summarizing the budget proposals on child support: For the Child Support Program, we are renewing a number of prior proposals for efforts to ensure that … Continue reading
President’s Budget Proposes Civil Legal Research and Civil Legal Aid Competitive Grant Program
Two important development for the future in the federal budget process. While these proposals are unlikely to be sucessful tis year, they help create the environment thefuture, and can also be cited for the position of the Executive as to … Continue reading
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A Humorous Aside on Car Safety Technology — Back Seat Driver Assist and More
I recently blogged about one car company’s safety goals, and how that might be a model for access to justice goal setting. That set me thinking about more advanced technology, going beyond such things as collision avoidance and blind spot … Continue reading
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Could Volvo’s No Death Goal Show The Way for Access to Justice Innovation
I recently discovered that Volvo Cars has set a zero death goal for its new cars by 2020. “Our vision is that no one is killed or injured in a new Volvo by 2020,” the chief of governmental affairs is … Continue reading
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