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Calculating Broad Economic Jobs and Tax Impact of Court Cuts — Bloomberg Businessweek Cites Los Angeles Study — Methodology, National Court Funding Campaign
Bloomberg Businessweek has a useful story on the impact of court cuts on the overall economy. As well as quoting Steve Zack (ABA President), David Boies (Prop 8, Microsoft and Bush Gore litigator) and David Udell (National Center for Access … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Budget Issues, Systematic Change
Tagged Los Angeles
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Recidivism Versus Redemption: Risk of Re-Arrest Falls Over Time, To Less Than in Overall General Population
Obviously, risk of rearrest is a huge issue in terms of the steps that are considered appropriate to keep those with criminal records integrated into society. NTY has a piece on the relative lack of rationality of many of the … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Law, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services
Tagged Expungment
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Wayne Moore Part Two: Roles of ATJ Commissions, Pro Bono, LSC etc., and A Ten Year Vision
This is Part Two of our NewsMaker Interview with Wayne Moore, author of Delivering Legal Services to Low-Income People. Part One, here, included discussion of what Wayne has learned about how a system should be built, what components it should … Continue reading
Finally Posted — Judges’ Journal Article on Self-Represented Cases: 15 Techniques for Saving Time in Tough Times
This is long overdue, but I thought some of you might like to know that a list of ideas for how judges might respond to the increase in the numbers of self-represented, written by Judges Mark Juhas (of California), Maureen … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Judicial Ethics, Self-Help Services, Systematic Change
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Data, Decision-Making, and Eficiency — the Payoff Is Begining to Show and We Are Way Behind
An important article in Saturday’s NYT is on the payoff from data-driven decision-making. This is an area that has not been much studied in the past, and must be distinguished from the the different question of efficiencies from automating or … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Research and Evalation, Technology
Tagged Data Mining, Decision Making
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Wayne Moore Discusses His Comprehensive Vision for Legal Aid Programs — Part One of Our NewsMaker Interview
Wayne Moore has been an access to justice leader for almost 30 years. Two of his greatest achievements have been helping to conceptualize and operationalize the hotline and pro bono movements. He has now drawn upon his long experience to … Continue reading
Leadership — Telling Bad News
The Albany Times Union’s Capital Connection Blog has posted NY Chief Judge Lippman’s video to the court staff on the impact of the 6% cuts imposed in the recently finalized state budget. It’s really a model in terms of the … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Issues, Self-Help Services
Tagged Jonathan Lippman, Leadershiip, New York
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Disclosing Conflicts of Interest May Not Result in More Neutral Information, or Appropriate Assessement of its Neutrality
Its a truism that disclosure of conflicts of interest makes information more reliable and lets people make better judgments of its neutrality. As this article in the NYT discusses, that may not be as true as we would like. A … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Research and Evalation
Tagged Conflict, Cross Examination, Expert Witness
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Court Simplification — Steps to Reduce Costs and Intrustiveness of Family Investigators — An Interesting Pioneer Step By the Colorado Supreme Court
As reported by the Colorado Bar’s Legal Connection Blog, the Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice has modified, effective April 2011, the Directive on Child and Family Investigations, Chief Justice Directive 04-08. As the blog summarizes the changes they will: “Establish … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Domestic Violence, Research and Evalation, Systematic Change
Tagged Evaluators, Family Law
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Pro Se Clerks in the Federal Courts — A Base for Self-Help Innovation
The Third Branch, with official news from the Federal Courts, has an interesting piece on pro se clerks in the Federal system. The core point: the court staff put in place to deal with prisoner petitions are now working on … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Courts, Meetings, Self-Help Services, Unbundling
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Learning and Fonts — Bigger And Easier is Maybe Not Better — Should We Really Make Websites Harder to Understand?
Counter-intuitive research reported in the New York Times raises some questions about how we design self-help materials. A study to be published this year in the journal Psychological Science, led by Dr. Kornell, shows how strong this effect [The brain … Continue reading
From Russia for Justice — Alternative Models for Access to Justice In Draft Bill
Whether it is a message about universality, yet another underlining of how out of step we are in the US, but the Russian Ministry of Justice, we hear from the Access to Justice Blog, has published a draft law on … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, International Models, Systematic Change
Tagged Russia
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More Thoughts on The Study on Impact of Time After Meal/Break Upon Judicial Decision
A few days ago I blogged on a scary study that suggested that the big variable in decisions where judges had a lot of discretion was how long after the meal/break the case was heard. The study found a huge … Continue reading
Professor Tribe at LSC
Yesterday Prof. Larry Tribe spoke at LSC to the Board and others. Here are my own impressionistic thoughts of what for me were the highlights. News on Replacement: Prof. Tribe reported that the process for replacing him is moving forward, … Continue reading
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