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For Texas Access Advocates, No Good Deed Goes Appreciated
Law.com is carrying a remarkable story out of Texas. Under the heading Draft Forms for Pro Se Divorce Litigants Create Controversy, the site is reporting on the frankly remarkably intense reaction of the Texas Family Bar to plans for the … Continue reading
New York Times Reports on High School-Based Legal Triage
The Times has a nice story on how a high school teacher with a law degree runs a clinic at eight high schools, with what looks like brief service and triage. The foundation is based at Mr. Kass’s own school, … Continue reading
Posted in Self-Help Services, Systematic Change
Tagged High Schools
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New York Access Group Keeps on Moving
This should inspire us all. As you know, the NY courts have had a brutal budget year. Yet they have just issued their 2011 Access Report, showing some great new innovations: The creation of a trilingual DIY (document assembly) form … Continue reading
Posted in Court Management, Document Assembly, Self-Help Services
Tagged Faecebook, NY, Twitter
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UK Impact of Litigants in Person (SRLs to the US)
The UK Law Gazette has a good (if anxious) roundup article on the impact of the self-represented on the courts in the UK, with a focus on the likely impact of the looming legal aid cuts.
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Self-Help Services
Tagged UK
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California Daily Journal on Costs of Cutting Self-Help Programs
The (California) Daily Journal, a legal publication, has a good story on the risk that cutting back on self-help services may end up costing more than it saves. A good article to cite to. Just a few years ago, California … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Issues, Court Management, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services
Tagged California
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California Courts Issue RFP for Evaluation of Shriver Project
This is an important step for the evaluation of the access to counsel pilot passed by the California Legislature, and for which the first round of underlying program awards have already been made. The RFP is here, and proposals are … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Counsel, Research and Evalation
Tagged California, Shriver Project
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Exciting Triage Progress at TIG Conference
I am pleased to report that our sessions at the TIG Conference on Intake, Triage, and Technology were very successful. One session reviewed where we are now, with a focus on how court self-help centers decide who gets what help, … Continue reading
Online Form to Request Interpreters
The Utah Courts have put up online the pdf form that can be used to request an interpreter (Spanish version). Here is the instruction page. As the instruction page says: You must request a court interpreter at least 3 days … Continue reading
Posted in Document Assembly, LEP
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NY Launches Mobile Office with Video for Remote Court Appearance
This a great idea. I am sure we will learn a lot from it. I hope we get a good evaluation out of the project. Here is the release: State-of-the-Art Vehicle Includes Private Meeting and Conference Rooms with Video Links … Continue reading
Posted in Legal Aid, Technology
Tagged Video Appearance
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More Great News from SJI — Request for Concept papers on Self-Represented — Due Date Feb 15
This, from SJI, speaks for itself — and speaks well. REQUEST FOR CONCEPT PAPERS Self-Represented Litigation in the State Courts SJI is accepting concept papers to address self-represented litigation in the state courts – one of SJI’s new Priority Investment … Continue reading
Arguument Feb 21 in Supreme Court Case on Scope of “Interpreter” Costs
This could make a difference in the language access debate. On February 21, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd. This case, appealed from CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mauritania … Continue reading
Claudia Johnson Blogs on Location of Services Where the Poor Now Are — in the Suburbs
One question I always ask myself is, why are most legal non profits, and their services in urban areas when the poverty populations have been moving from the city to the suburbs en mass in the past 10 years? Why … Continue reading
Access Impact of “Settlement Mills” in Auto Insurance Cases
Nora Freeman Engstrom, an Assistant Professor at Stanford Law School has a fascinating article out in the New York University Law Review. It deals with the largely unnoticed phenomenon of what she calls “settlement mills” in auto accident claims. The … Continue reading
An Access Strategy for 2012
Maybe it’s time to sum up an integrated access strategy for 2012. I see four major directions right now: Leverage Turner. The case offers every state the impetus and opportunity to self-assess the accessibility and due process sufficiency of how … Continue reading
Inherent Authority to Appoint Counsel — Montana Supreme Court Order — Wisconsin Hearing
This is interesting. On December 6, 2011, the Montana Supreme Court unanimously entered an Order appointing counsel for a mother in a guardianship case. The trial court had refused, citing lack of satutory authority. The state Supreme Court held … Continue reading
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Tagged Inherent Auhority, Montana
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