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Coup for the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo
David Udell and the National Center for Access to Justice have scored a coup in recruiting Laura Abel as their Deputy Director. As their announcement puts it: Laura brings directly relevant vision and experience to the Center. She is a … Continue reading
NewsMaker Interview — Rebecca Sandefur on Her ABF Study of Access to Justice And Follow-Up
Today’s NewsMaker Interview is with Rebecca Sandefur, one of the co-authors of the recent American Bar Foundation study of access to justice. Becky has changed the whole debate, with a long-overdue collection of data that forces us to confront the … Continue reading
Ten-fold Increase in Usage of Retail Health Clinics in Two Years — Implications for Legal Delivery
Is this the future of legal help too? A tenfold increase in visits to retail store based health clinics in just two years, as reported by the Washington Post, based on a recent RAND study. The data is based on … Continue reading
Management Information Exchange Journal Publishes My Article on Implications for Legal Aid of the Emerging Access to Jusice Consensus
I am happy to announce that Management Information Exchange Journal has now published an article by me aimed particularly at a legal aid audience on the implications for Legal Aid of the emerging consensus on access to justice. It is … Continue reading
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A Great Idea from Colorado — Law School Experienced Lawyer Pro Bono Representation Center
Jim Peters is a private lawyer who is a member of the Colorado Access to Justice Commission. At the recent Rothgerber Conference in Denver he came up with a really new idea — to link senior attorneys interested in pro … Continue reading
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UK Judge on the State of Access to Justice
Lord Justice Moses is a British Appellate Court Judge. He recently gave an astonishingly powerful and blunt speech to the Public Law Project. Thanks to the fine international Access to Justice Blog for the catch. For those of us in … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally
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Claudia Johnson Guest Blogs on Machine Translation—First in Medicine, then in Law?
Thanks again to Claudie Johnson for her latest post: Many of us who track technology innovations get very excited about the possibilities that open up when we hear or read that that machine translation tools are becoming more and more … Continue reading
Posted in LEP, Technology
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NYT Reports Dramatic Numbers of “Near Poor” — Access Implications
In response to a request from the Times, the Census Bureau ran the numbers on the “near poor” defined as 150% of the poverty rate, and using its newer more accurate poverty measure. Perhaps the most startling differences between the … Continue reading
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Chuck Greenfield NewsMaker Interview
This blog is happy to welcome Chuck Greenfield, newly appointed Chief Counsel for Civil Programs at NLADA for a NewsMaker Interview. Zorza: So, first of all, congratulations. You obviously come well prepared with your long background at LSC and in … Continue reading
Posted in Legal Aid, LSC, Newsmaker Interview, Research and Evalation, Technology
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We Welcome Guest Blogger Claudia Johnson Blogging on ATJ Tablet Ideas
Our first guest blogger is Claudia Colindres Johnson who will be adding her perspectives on access to justice here for the next month or so. I am particularly pleased to welcome Claudia (already a frequent commenter on the blog) because … Continue reading
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European Union Adopts Standardized “Miranda” Type Notice to Include Right to Interpreter
Its interesting that the EU has agreed on a standardized “Miranda” type warning. As described in the EU press release: The Letter of Rights will contain practical details about accused persons’ rights: to a lawyer; to be informed of the … Continue reading
LSC Budget News — Not Good
NLDA Legal Aid News sends out the bad news: Last night House and Senate conferees agreed to a spending package that would fund the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) at $348,000,000 for FY 2012. This figure represents a reduction in overall … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards, Funding, IOLTA, LSC
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Bringing New Lawyers into Pro Bono
It’s a natural match, worth duplicating in most states. New lawyers, often without jobs, and needing experience and MCLE credits, and litigants desperate for attorney help. Kudos to the NY Courts and Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Fern Fisher, an innovate, … Continue reading
How the Law Could Advance Driverless Cars — Questions for Access
There’s been much attention, most recently in a great NYT article on Google’s X, their secret lab, on driverless cars. The consensus is that the main barriers are political and social, not technical — see Nevada law. Here’s a thought. … Continue reading
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Some Interesting TIG Grants, and the Upcoming TIG Conference
With the announcement of the 2012 TIG Conference to be held in January in Albuquerque (draft Agenda here), it occurs to me that we have not paid enough attention to the wide range of grants LSC has awarded to enhance … Continue reading
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