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Utah Passes Law Library Self-Help Center Bill
Here is the key language in the description of the bill passed by the Legislature: This bill: creates a self-help center within a court’s law library; requires that the self-help center be staffed by licensed attorneys; allows the self-help center … Continue reading
Court Leadership
New York’s Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman has gotten great coverage for his new pro bono requirement for new NY bar applicants. Here is is speech, and here is the NYT coverage. Aside from the access value of the idea itself, … Continue reading
Potential Issues With Requiring Unbundling Counsel to Disclose What Not To Be Done
I recently blogged on Laura Abel’s interesting idea about requiring counsel to disclose what they are not going to be doing. I pointed out that this might assist in a Turner approach to ensuring that what needs to be done … Continue reading
Posted in Unbundling
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New Report on Evolving Role of Law Libraries in the 21st Century
I have just issued a press release about a Report I have issued about the changing role of law libraries. Here is the text of the release (link here). Washington, DC – Law libraries can continue to play an integral … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries
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Montana Supreme Court Takes Lead on SRL Discovery Issues
The pitfalls of discovery procedure are one of the barriers to access for the self-represented. So it is particularly good to see the Montana Supreme Court taking a commonsense approach to the technicalities. In Arlington v. Miller’s Trucking, the Court … Continue reading
Posted in Administative Proecdure, Judicial Ethics
Tagged Discovery
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SJI Announces Six Self-Represented Litigation Grants
The latest issue of SJI E-News announces that the Board has approved six SRL related grants. Here is the text of the announcement: During the 2nd quarter Board meeting, 6 SIG grants were awarded totaling $275,158. These projects address one … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, LEP, Research and Evalation, Triage
Tagged IV-D, Justice Corps, South Carolina
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Unbundling and Judicial Engagement — Proposal from Laura Abel
As part of a very interesting article in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, and now on SSRN, Laura Abel discusses the potential for courts to require attorneys to disclose what tasks they are not performing for their clients, … Continue reading
Posted in Triage, Unbundling
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Free Sue Talia CLE Program on Unbundling Now Online Thanks to PLI
Its called Expanding Your Practice Using Limited Scope Representation and is online here. It’s free (thanks to the generosity of Sue and PLI) and CLE credit is available for most states. You can’t beat that deal, particularly with the super … Continue reading
Posted in Unbundling
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Mediation and the Self-Represented — Towards a New Paradigm
The mediation world seems to be starting seriously to engage the issue of self-represented litigants. Indeed, last week at the ABA Conference of the Section on Dispute Resolution, I was on a panel on the subject with Heather Scheiwe Kulp, … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Mediation, Supreme Court
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Wonderful Medical Education Innovation Idea — Challenge to Legal Education
The New York Times has a great article on a curriculum experiment at Harvard Med. In an attempt to break through the dehumanizing impact of the traditional third year of medical school, Harvard has tried assigning students to individual patients … Continue reading
Posted in Law Schools, Medical System Comparision, Pro Bono
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More Information on SRLN Pre-Conference May 16, Jacksonville Fl
Here is a preliminary agenda for the SRLN Pre-Confernce, held in association with the ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference in Jacksonville Florida. Self-Represented Litigation Network 2012 Pre-Conference at the Equal Justice Conference Jacksonville Florida, May 16, 2012, Hyatt Regency Riverfront City … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings, Self-Help Services
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Claudia Johnson on “A Tale of Two Bars”
So, this blog has shared information on the debate that ensued in Texas, when the Supreme Court moved to simplified family law forms. https://accesstojustice.net/2012/01/25/texas-supreme-court-moves-forward-on-forms/. The State Bar has tried to change the Court’s decision to move towards simplifing the forms … Continue reading
Posted in Forms, Funding
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Excellent Idea
I pass on a great idea from Glenn Rawdon. He suggests as a general matter that we need a Siri-like app that gets people to the right online access to justice information for their problem. As the Apple site puts … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Technology, Self-Help Services, Technology
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On Impact of Blogging — Plan to Permit Search Engine Indexing of This Blog, Policy on Comments
When I launched this blog almost a year and a half ago, I cautiously set it so that posts and comments would not be indexed on search engines. I made this decision to minimize the risk of the blog generating … Continue reading
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Carl Reynolds Retires from Texas Administrative Office of Courts
Carl Reynolds, Director of the Texas Administrative Office of the Courts, is retiring. Here is his biography, as distributed at the January 2012 Shared Solutions Summit: Carl Reynolds is an attorney with extensive experience in all three branches of Texas … Continue reading
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Tagged Texas
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