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Briefing Paper on Natural Alliance Between Legal Aid and Philanthropy
The Public Welfare Foundation and the Kresge Foundation have released an excellent and useful briefing paper on the relationship between legal aid and philanthropy. The core argument is simple: Ultimately, civil legal aid is a powerful tool that can increase … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Funding, Legal Aid
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Thoughts from the Canadian Envisioning Equal Justice Summit — Parallel Paths to Innovation and Access
I am just back from Vancouver and the Canadian Bar Association Envisioning Equal Justice Summit. My main conclusion is that the Canadians and the US are now on very similar and potentially supportive paths. The Summit was brought together to … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, International Cooperation, Simplification, Technology, Triage
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Interesting Simplifiation/Right to Counsel Argument from Justice Sotamayor in Immigration Case
Yesterdays immigration opinion, MONCRIEFFE v. HOLDER, from the Supreme Court, holding possession of small amounts of marijuana outside the definition of “aggravated felony” ineligible for discretionary relief from deportation, contains an interesting nugget for possible citation in simplification and right … Continue reading
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Paul Krugman Nails the “Excel Depression” — And Reminds Us of the Risks of Errors When You Rely on Data
Paul Krugman has a brilliant and sobering column on what he calls the Excel Depression. Core idea. The austerity policies adopted worldwide were driven by academic work about the benefits of such policies. But: Finally, Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Technology
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What a Day at the White House!
Yesterday, Tuesday, was a White House Forum on Increasing Access to Justice in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. LSC and the White House were the co-hosts. Some of the highlights for me — all showing what a different time this … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Dept. of Justice
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Great New Video on FEMA Appeal App
Pro Bono Net has an online tool to help with FEMA appeals. NY-1, the New York all-news station, has a nice video on it. (warning, slow link.) As local cable all-news stations proliferate, it might be a good idea to … Continue reading
Posted in Document Assembly, Media
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Access to Justice in Rural Areas — an Opportunity?
The New York Times has a fascinating article on how South Dakota is offering a subsidy to lawyers to serve rural areas. The new law, which will go into effect in June, requires a five-year commitment from the applicant and … Continue reading
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Great Article in Chronicle of Philanthropy on Levaraging Access to Justice for Substantive Areas
The Chronicle on Philanthropy has an excellent article by Mary McClymont of the Public Welfare Foundation on the usefulness of issue-oriented grant-maker strategies including a legal aid/access to justice component. I am pasting below much of the article: Philanthropy, which … Continue reading
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Self-Represented Litigation Network Announces Details of PreConference at Equal Justice Conference — May 8, 2013, St Louis
The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) will be conducting its annual PreConference on May 8, 2013 before the main Equal Justice Conference at the Hyatt Regency St Louis at the Arch, in St Louis. The topics to be covered are planned … Continue reading
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Thoughts on a Discouraging Post-Turner Decision from the GA Court of Appeals
The Georgia Court of Appeals (intermediate appellate court), in a complex, but none-the-less discouraging and hard to understand (in both senses of the phrase) decision has de-certified the class in a case designed to answer a question left open in … Continue reading
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Equal Justice Works Acepting Proposals for Veterans Projects
Here is a description of the Project (note that positions are contingent upon funding from Amercorps): Equal Justice Works just released a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking results-oriented host sites for the Veterans Legal Corps Fellowship Program, an exciting new … Continue reading
Malpractice Insurance Provider Writes Sympathetically About Unbundling
One anxiety that has held back expansion of unbundling is fear that malpractice carriers will be unhappy with their clients providing unbundled legal assistance. While this fear is largely dissipating, it is nice to see that one insurer’s blog has … Continue reading
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Roundtable for Incubators at Equal Justice
As you know, I am a huge fan of the incubator. It is one of the “without-which” innovations that we have to put in place to get to 100% access to justice. Among the obvious advantages: a path for law … Continue reading
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Report on Colorado Simplified Process Rule Option
In 2004 Colorado put in place statewide a Rule 6.1 permitting the parties to use a simplified trial process in certain relatively low-stake cases. A report on this experiment is now available here, and it is reported on in the … Continue reading
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Important Letter From NSF on Interest in Acces to Justice
NSF has issued an important “dear colleague” letter “Stimulating Research Related to the Use and Functioning of the Civil Justice System” on the agency’s continuing interest in access-type research. While this is not a new solicitation, the letter makes clear … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Research and Evalation
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