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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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Integrating “Roles Beyond Lawyers” into Court Improvement Strategies
A recent paper by Colleen F. Shanahan, Anna E. Carpenter and Alyx Mark makes a very important point that, as the abstract puts it: Access to justice interventions that provide a little representation, including nonlawyer representation and various forms of … Continue reading
Getting ATJ Statistics Into Census Data Collection — The Eviction Example Highlighted on fivethirtyeight.com
The wonderful fivethirtyeight.com, which many of us obsessively check multiple times a day for its magnificent (and frightening) election projection results, has just put up a very important article on the under-counting of the eviction problem. The title tells it … Continue reading
DOJ/NSF White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable Report on Access to Justice Research
I have been much remiss in not blogging earlier about this important and very timely Report from the Department of Justice (NIJ and ATJ) and the National Science Foundation on Research in Access to Justice. Formally titled White House Legal … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Consumer Rights, Dept. of Justice, expungement, Family Law, Foreclosure, LAIR, Legal Aid, Medical System Comparision, Non-Lawyer Practice, Outcome Measures, Reentry, Referral Systems, Research and Evalation, Self-Help Services
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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
Opportunities at the New Access to Justice Research Lab at Harvard Law
A big step forward. These wonderful job opportunities at the new Harvard Law Access to Justice Research Lab established by Jim Greiner. This from Jim: The Access to Justice Lab is a startup effort, with sufficient funding in hand for … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation
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Council of Economic Advisors Report on Costs and Benefits of Incarceration Versus Other Approaches Incudes Excellent Arguments for Broader Impact of Access to Civil Justice
When the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) speaks, the world listens. And, indeed, when the CEA issued Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, it was a very big deal. What was unusual was that the … 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
Posted in Alternative Business Structures, International Models, Metrics, Research and Evalation
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Outcome Measures #2: LSC Outcomes Measures, Good News, Bad News, and A Challenge
This is number 2 in an occasional series on outcome measures. Number 1 reiterated how important it is to develop and apply such measures system wide. There is good news and bad news on LSC outcome measures. The good news: … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards, IOLTA, Legal Aid, LSC, Metrics, Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, Series: Outcome Measures
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The Need for Economic and Regulatory Incentives for Access to Justice
I find it remarkable that there so few regulatory and economic incentives towards access to justice built into our system. It is now true that you have to do a certain number of pro bono hours to get to be … Continue reading
John Naughton In the Guardian Calls for Code of Ethics For Those Who Write Algorithms
A fascinating article in the Guardian is of relevance to anyone who builds or uses technology in the justice system. After highlighting the range of decisions made by algorithms today, and their potential consequences, the writer, John Naughton, moves to … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Court Management, Metrics, Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, Software Developers, Technology, Transparency, Triage
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What Do We Do With the Apparant Fact That People Who Beleive They Are More Creative Are More LIkely to Believe That They Are Entitled, and To Act Unethically?
Richard Moohead wonderfully picks up on recent research on the relationship between creativity and entitlement. The research, reported in the Harvard Business Review, tested whether people who beleived that they were more creative were, for example, willing to lie for … Continue reading
Posted in Judicial Ethics, Legal Ethics, Research and Evalation
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