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Justice Index Gets ABA Pro Bono Award
The ABA has announced that the Justice Index has been awarded an ABA Pro Bono Award. (Press coverage of the Index here.) This certainly helps cement the status of the Index as a major infrastructure component of the access to … Continue reading
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Illinois Strategic Plan Combines Principles, Initiatives, and Success Measures
The superb new strategic plan from the Illinois Access to Justice Commission is a model in may ways. I want, however, to emphasize one, its structure. This approach gives them, and us, a strong and effective document that will serve … Continue reading
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Access to Justice: Why Focus On This Issue In an Era With So Many Existential Crises
Sometimes we advocates for access to justice quietly admit to each other that with so many other issues threatening our planet, the poor, and our democracy, that it is hard to argue for access to justice a a funding priority. … Continue reading
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Mary McClymont’s Governing Magazine Op-Ed Moves the Chief’s Resolution and Justice For All Message to the Other Branches
I suspect that most in the non-judicial branches are still largely unaware of the the Chiefs’ 100% Resolution, making access to justice the office bi-partisan policy of the United States, let alone that they have thought about the implications for … Continue reading
A Challenge: How Do We Even Out The Rates of Media Outreach Capacity for Access to Justice at the National and States Level?
Voices for Civil Justice, funded by the Public Welfare Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and others, and headed by Martha Bergmark, has done amazing work in terms of getting the access to justice messave out at the national level. They have … Continue reading
Immigration Judges Learn to Recognze and Protect Against Implicit Bias
The NYT has an important piece today on judges and implicit bias. Now, as the country struggles with how these instinctive judgments shape our lives, the Justice Department is trying to minimize the role of bias in law enforcement and … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Communications Strategy, Immigration, Judicial Ethics, SRLN
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Very Hopeful Poll on Views of Age 18-26 Cohort Has Major Justice Implications
Frank Luntz, a broadly respected Republican Pollster, has just issued a fascinating poll on attitudes of people aged 8 to 26, which he calls the “Snapchat generation,” for whatever reason. Bottom line, leaving the partisan stuff out, this generation are … Continue reading
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NCSC Study Finds Public Support for Technology and Self-Represented Accessibility, Implications for 100% Goal
The National Center for State Courts recently conducted a public opinion survey about the courts. Probably the most important findings: Public demand for more self-sufficiency highlights a path forward. Our last survey found a clear demand for greater use of … Continue reading
ATJ Commissions Planning Survey Shows Energy, Common Directions and Interest in Multi-State Networking
After the Access to Justice Commissions meeting this spring in Austin, the Commissions were invited to respond to a brief survey as to their interest in following up on the areas for possible initiatives that had been the focus of … Continue reading
High Lifetime Chance of Being Poor Suggests a New Legal Aid/ATJ Funding Argument
For decades we have been struggling with the fact that we think that many, perhaps most, people are resultant to fund legal aid, and particularly means-tested community-based legal aid because they think that it will never help them. (Incidentally, every … Continue reading