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Maybe These Poster Proposals from SRLN Will Stimulate Ideas
As I have previously blogged, this Friday is the deadline for Poster Proposals for the open gathering in Chicago on Research into Access to Justice to be held on December 7. Proposals should be sent to A2Jworkshop@abfn.org by Friday, November … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Simplification, SRL Statistics, Triage
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Center for Court Access to Justice for All Issues First Accss Brief on Self-Help Services
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
Posted in Court Management, Self-Help Services
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How Law Student/Bar Applicant Pro Bono Requirements Might Move National
Its an interesting possibility. Could New York’s recently finalized 50 hour pro bono requirement for those seeking bar admission go national, and if so, what would the mechanism be? David Udell, of the National Center for Access to Justice and … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Claudia Johnson on The Technology Future
With the first LSC Technology and Access to Justice Summit completed, and the second in the planning phase, this blog’s guest blogger Claudia Johnson offers these general thoughts on directions for the future.
Posted in Guest Bloggers, LSC, Research and Evalation, Technology, Tools, Transparency, Triage
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Post Election Implications for Access to Justice — Part I: Broad Themes
This very much not an electoral politics blog. But Tuesday had such strong implications for the access to justice discussion that I think it may be useful to start to think through some of the second level themes and implications … Continue reading
A Pulitzer for Nate Silver?
I have long been a fan of Nate Silver’s election prediction blog, now part of the New York Times. I now realize that his use of statistical modeling has changed, at least among leadership and policy elites, our ability to … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Simplification, Triage
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Important Call for Posters — Access to Justice Research Meeting
Here is the Call for Posters for the Access to Civil Justice: Re-envisioning and Reinvigorating Research Workshop, funded by NSF. This poster concept may not be familiar to all of us in access to justice, but it is now absolutely … Continue reading
Research on Young People’s Use of Internet to Get Legal Information
I am happy to report on, and post, a presentation by, Catina Denvir at the University of London, on preliminary results on research on young people’s use of the Internet in the UK. I think these prelimnary results are important … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Technology, Usabilty
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Time For a National Center on Mobile Access to Justice
Several organizations have been stepping up to the plate on mobile, for example, LSC with its TIG grants, Illinois LegalAidOnline with their informational and pro bono apps, the State Bar of Georgia. Not to mention the Pro Bono Net, Northwest Justice … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Mobile Technology, Technology
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If Alan Turing Had Lived — Or Died Earlier
It might be worth asking ourselves what might the world look like if the man who won World War II and created the digital technology revolution had been allowed to live as an openly gay man, to marry, and create … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally
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Court Simplification Working Paper from SRLN
The Self-Represented Litigation Network has completed its Working Paper titled Towards Simplification. The document, more a road-map than a proposal, outlines seven principles for simplification, six approaches, four barriers and political issues, and nine possible strategies. The document is here. … Continue reading
Posted in Simplification, Systematic Change
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Learning About Our Guest Blogger Claudia Johnson
Many of you have read posts on this blog from Claudia Johnson. Most of us did not know where here passion for access, and indeed the breadth of her vision, came from. As she tells us in a recent post … Continue reading
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Counting Pro Bono — A New Question From the UK
This should get us thinking. An article in the UK Law Society Gazette, Pro bono – minding the gap, as commented on by the excellent Richard Moorehead here, suggests that the current systems of counting pro bono are inadequate. One … Continue reading
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Self-Represented Litigation Network Plans Equal Justice Conference Pre-Conference
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
Posted in Meetings, Self-Help Services
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Using Prizes to Engage the Tech Community — A Model for Us
The Federal Trade Commission is using the lure of a $50,000 prize to incentivise new ideas to deal with robocall problem. Best of all, the agency is making data available to help people think about the problem: As part of … Continue reading
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