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American Constition Society Issuue Brief Addresses Multi-Layered Approach to Solving Access Crisis
Historically, I have found that the generally progressive community — even the generally progressive legal community — has been relatively traditional in is approach to the access to justice crisis. The “line” has been right to counsel, and increased funding … Continue reading
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Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Institutional Structure of Communty Based Legal Aid
As “access to justice” receives more and more attention, and as we start to put in place new structures such as the “communications hub,” perhaps it is time to step back and think about the strengths and weakness of our … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards, Access to Justice Generally, Communications Strategy, LSC, Systematic Change
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Shift of Poor People to Mobile Phones May Result in Undercounting in Legal Needs Studies
The Center for Disease Control has just released some stats on the relationship between poverty and cell phone use. As they put it: Adults living in poverty (56.2%) were more likely than adults living near poverty (46.1%) and higher income … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Research and Evalation
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Article on Spread of ATJ Commissions Implicitly Raises the Question Whether There is Any Good Argument Left To Justify A State Not Having an ATJ Commission
An excellent article in the NCSC Publication Court Trends, written by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht of Texas and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride of Illinois, includes timelines and listings of the spread of the Commissions movement. It shows the … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards
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Guest Post on Potential of Lay Advocates by Allan Rodgers
Allan Rodgers of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute was my backup resource when I did unemployment advocacy before law school, back in the mid-70s. His personal model of probity and vision is one the reasons I became a lawyer, and … Continue reading
How Could Interpreter Costs Be Understood So That They are Not In Conflict With ATJ Goals
A recent excellent New York Times article by Fernanda Santos about how the push to provide interpreters is putting strain on court budgets, and forcing delay or reduction of other expenditures, highlights the long term costs of state inattention to … Continue reading
Posted in Court Management, Funding, LEP, SRL Statistics
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The Legal Aid Community Should be Ready to Help the Nation’s Response to Crisis
Recent news events have led me to reflect on how the legal aid community, broadly defined, needs to be ready to help when crisis hits. While the ultimate outcome of events in Iraq remains uncertain, it is all too possible … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Planning, Systematic Change
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NYT Report on California “Court-Aided Divorce” is a Milestone in Several Ways
Today’s Times report’s on one day court-aided divorce is a breakthrough in several ways. First it is a breakthrough that the concept, while perhaps obvious once articuleatd, is actually now deployed, if only in a few places. The core paras … Continue reading
Thoughts in Response to Esther Lardent’s Question About Unbundling and Pro Bono
The ever-thoughtful Esther Lardent recently asked whether we are “shrinking pro bono?” As I understand it, the core of her worry about the impact of unbundling innovation is expressed in this para. In the right context, limited-scope pro bono service … Continue reading
Posted in LSC, Pro Bono, Unbundling
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“New Roles for Non-Lawyers to Increase Access to Justice” by David Udell and Richard Zorza Published
Here is the paper on nonlawyer roles, written by jointly David Udell and me (as this blog post is), just published in the Fordham Urban Law Journal. We hope that it will serve as the foundation and spur for continued … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally
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Courts are Dysfunctinal for Different Kinds of Litigants in Profoundly Different Ways
It seems to me that the discussions about how to make courts work again have suffered from a problem of fragmentation. While basically all courts operate under the same rules, based on the 1930’s Federal Rule project, there are now … Continue reading
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A Cautionary Tale — Cartoon Points Out the Downsides of Automated Courts
The LA Times has a great cartoon on court automation that might give folks a kick. Accompanying a (presumably humorous) piece on the potential of court automation, the cartoon has four panels. In one a person tries to fill in … Continue reading
Posted in Systematic Change, Technology, Transparency
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California Shows Potential of Commissions with Assist to Incubators
This is really a double headline story — Commissions and incubators. The California Access to Justice Commission has taken the lead in moving forward incubators throughout the state. They have obtained funding for three conferences, held throughout the state, to … Continue reading
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Communications Research Underlines Need for Coordinated Marketing and Enhancement of Online Tools for All
One of the clearest messages from the communications research is that the best — perhaps the only — way to get public support for increased resources for court and community based legal aid above the needed 50% threshold is to … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, IOLTA, LSC, Technology
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Massachusetts Adds Access to Justice to Bar Exam — Ideas on Implications
Massachusetts has now added access to justice to the bar exam, starting in 2016. As previously reported in this blog when comment was sought, the now-accepted proposal includes a wide range of topics from landlord tenant to predatory lending, and … Continue reading
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