Category Archives: Meetings

SRLN Conference Schedule and Early Registration Deadline

The Tentative Schedule for the SRLN Conference (Feb 23-24) in San Francisco is now available, and early price-reduced registration, link here, closes very soon, on Feb 1.  General registration will remain open after that day. A two-day in-person national conference … Continue reading

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Video of the SRLN Day at the Equal Justice Conference Will be Available

Video will soon be made available. Full agenda below (Central time): 7:30 – 8:30 Newbie Coffee Hour Led by Melissa Moss, Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives at The Florida Bar Foundation. See http://www.srln.org/node/905 for details. If this is your 1st … Continue reading

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Nice Development for Incubators

The International Justice Center for Postgraduate Development at Touro Law Center and Lexis have announced an arrangement by which lawyers in incubator and residence type programs will get a year’s free access to Lexis tools. This is obviously good news … Continue reading

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Tomorrow, Fri Feb 27, is Early Registration Deadline for EJC, Scheduled Just After SRL Pre-Conference

Tomorrow, Friday February 27 is the early registration deadline for the EJC Conference in Austin this May.  The SRL Pre-Conference is May 6,  and the SRL Pre-Conference May 7-9.  In addition to a full day of information, engagement, and networking … Continue reading

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DOJ Day Highlights Integration of ATJ and LEP Approaches

On Friday at the Department of Justice, the Civil Rights Division launched its Language Access Planning and Technical Assistance Tool.  While the tool itself, introduced with great skill by Deeana Jang, Chief, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section,Civil Rights Division, is … Continue reading

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Self-Represented Litigation Network Pre-Conference April 30 in Portland

The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) will be conducting its annual Pre-Conference on Wednesday April 30, 2014 before the main Equal Justice Conference at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower in Portland Oregon May 1-3. My replacement as Coordinator of SRLN, … Continue reading

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Califoria Self-Help Family Law Conference March 6-7 With Pre-conference March 5

This speaks for itself.  The California AOC has long been a leader not only in deploying innovations, but in encouraging national outreach and debate.  Note the court staff discount.  Note also the pre-conference, described below. The Administrative Office of the … Continue reading

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Claudia Johnson on NLADA

I (Claudia) went to my 13th or 14th NLADA this year, excited to go to Los Angeles. Yelp—showed many local places of interest-and top of my list was visiting the LA public library after workshop hours (of course!)—they are open … Continue reading

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Two Annoucements — TIG and a Forms Webinar

Here is information for the two events taken from their announcements: Forms Webinar: The Self-Represented Litigation Network is presenting a webinar on forms on Dec 5. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/426879791 This webinar features a look at forms … Continue reading

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Fordham Law Shool Plans Broad Access Symposium Nov 1 in NYC

Fordham Law School plans a broad Symposium on Access to Justice, on Nov 1 at their campus near Lincoln Center in Manhattan. While I find the formal title “Until Civil Gideon” a little confusing, the overall agenda gives a feel … Continue reading

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September Court Technology Conference to Feauture Self-Represented Track

The 2013 Court Technology Conference, to be held in Baltimore September 17-19, will feature a full track on the use of technology to assist in court access for the self-represented. Session titles and descriptions are: What do Litigants Expect? Two … Continue reading

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Self-Represented Litigation Network Announces Details of PreConference at Equal Justice Conference — May 8, 2013, St Louis

The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) will be conducting its annual PreConference on May 8, 2013 before the main Equal Justice Conference at the Hyatt Regency St Louis at the Arch, in St Louis. The topics to be covered are planned … Continue reading

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Roundtable for Incubators at Equal Justice

As you know, I am a huge fan of the incubator.  It is one of the “without-which” innovations that we have to put in place to get to 100% access to justice.  Among the obvious advantages: a path for law … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts on the Recent Access to Justice Research Agenda Meeting

As expected, the meeting held December 7 and 8 on establishing a research agenda in access to justice was exciting and productive.  There were about 40 people there, half researcher and half practitioners from courts and legal.  The meetings on … Continue reading

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Important Call for Posters — Access to Justice Research Meeting

Here is the Call for Posters for the Access to Civil Justice: Re-envisioning and Reinvigorating Research Workshop, funded by NSF. This poster concept may not be familiar to all of us in access to justice, but it is now absolutely … Continue reading

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