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Florida Bar Foundation and SRLN gets Kudos For their ATJ Mapping from ESRI, the GIS Company
I have already raved about this product, which brilliantly brings together multiple data to show the ATJ burden and treat from the Hurricane. So it is great to see that ESRI, a very major GIS-mapping company has honored this project … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards, Access to Justice Generally, Census Bureau, IOLTA, Mapping/GIS, Metrics, Software Developers, Technology
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Job Opportunity at Harvard Law Access to Justice Lab
As many of you know, the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School is an initiative to try to further evidence-based thinking within access to justice and court administration. It focuses on conducting randomized field experiments to find out … Continue reading
Posted in Law Schools, Metrics, Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services
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Algorithm Bias and Algorithm-Based Bias Compensation
As part of my series on algorithm bias, I want to offer what I think is a potentially revolutionary take on using algorithms not just to minimize, but actually to compensate for, bias and discrimination. The core idea is that … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Bias, Discrimination, Judicial Ethics, Metrics, Race
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A Tool For Assessing SRL Hearing Quality from the US Dept. of Labor
As state start to think about evaluating how their judges do in cases without lawyers, this might be a useful starting point. It is US Department of Labor Handbook on measuring hearing quality in unemployment hearings (in which the vast … Continue reading
Moving Forward With Federal ATJ Data Collection To Support the Chiefs 100% Access Resolution
Its a routine thing, best seen as the normal functioning of government, which is coming more and more to recognize the nonpartisan importance of access to justice issues and measures to all government goals, including making the system work for … Continue reading
Report on Symposium on Indicators — A Process That Will Go On
Back abut a thousand years ago, on September 15, 2016, an important Symposium on indicators was organized by Risa Kaufman and David Udell. They jointly blogged about it yesterday: On September 15, 2016, access to justice experts from the academic … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Dept. of Justice, Federal Agencies, Justice Index, Metrics, Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, SRL Statistics
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A Confession and a Manifesto for Client/Litigant Driven Outcome Measures in Access to Justice
As a patient, I would be outraged by the idea that medical professionals alone (link to 2001 paper) should decide the outcome measures that would be used to decide the benefit and utility of medical innovations. But, without a squeak of … Continue reading
Next Wed Celebrate GIS Day with an SRLN Map Webinar
As announced by SRLN, on Wed at 1 PM, Eastern: In coordination with GIS Day and National Geographic’s Geography Awareness Week, the Self-Represented Litigation Network (srln.org) is hosting a webinar on some of the ways geographic information systems (GIS) technology … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Census Bureau, Mapping/GIS, Metrics, SRL Statistics, SRLN
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Serving Self-Represented Litigants Remotely A Resource Guide Is a Must Read
Serving Self-Represented Litigants Remotely A Resource Guide, prepared by a team led by John Greacen and including SRLN members from across the country, has just been published by SRLN. It is a “Must Read,” to use a much over-used word. … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Budget Issues, Court Management, Forms, Metrics, Remote Services, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services, SRLN, Systematic Change, Technology, Triage
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Data Maps Come to Access to Justice Planning
This is an important step in ensuring that strategic planning is informed by underlying indicia of need. The Self-Represented Litigation Network has just launched a national, but highly granulated online tool for looking at national county by county level statistics … Continue reading
Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Access to Justice Generally, Evictions, Housing, Metrics, Poverty, SRL Statistics, SRLN
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Estimating Impact on Economic Mobility From Court Fees System
Today’s Times has a highly pertinent piece on the dramatic effect of court fees and costs on those caught in the juvenile justice system. Obviously it relates deeply to all the economic burdens that the legal system is imposing on … Continue reading
We Now Have Data To Help Prioritize ATJ Strategic Focuses
Yesterday, when I blogged about the first good national sample data on numbers of self-represented cases, and particularly on those who face a lawyer alone, I promised additional more broken down data. These numbers, taken from the same NCSC Landscape of … Continue reading
With Nate Silver’s Election Prediction Launch a Couple of Days Ago, Its a Good Time to Think About Statistics, Predictions, Triage, and Education for Public Policy
Nate’s 2016 polls-only prediction is that Clinton has an 77.6% chance of winning. For those of us who talk about how triage is critical, his methodology page is well worth some attention. It is highly sophisticated, and reminds us just … Continue reading
Study on Legal Service Providers in the UK Operating as Alternative Business Structures
In the UK, there is now a system in which lawyers and non-lawyers can co-own and can have outside investors in legal service providing organizations. They are called ABS (Alternative Business Structures handbook here). A recent research report on pricing … Continue reading
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