Category Archives: SRL Statistics

Moving Forward With Federal ATJ Data Collection To Support the Chiefs 100% Access Resolution

Posted on January 18, 2017 by richardzorza

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 →

Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Access to Justice Generally, Census Bureau, LAIR, Legal Aid, Metrics, SRL Statistics, Systematic Change, Triage | 1 Comment

Legal Aid HackathonShows the Coming Change in Access to Justice Culture is Enormous

Posted on January 14, 2017 by richardzorza

I love it. Before the TIG conference, there was a legal aid Hackathon.  Here is the presentation that summarized it.  Astonishing. This slide is my own favorite, and self-explanatory. Other projects included a write clearly tool, a legal check-up tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Legal Aid, LSC, SRL Statistics, Technology | 2 Comments

How to Compare the Appropriateness of Potential ATJ Indicators

Posted on December 4, 2016 by richardzorza

David Udell has challenged me to identify, from the recent indicators report, some of the “best indicators.”  Before I even think about doing that, I have tried to identify eleven criteria for a perfect indicator. The data is already being … Continue reading →

Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Funding, Justice Index, Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, Series: Outcome Measures, SRL Statistics | Comments Off on How to Compare the Appropriateness of Potential ATJ Indicators

Report on Symposium on Indicators — A Process That Will Go On

Posted on December 3, 2016 by richardzorza

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 | Comments Off on Report on Symposium on Indicators — A Process That Will Go On

Next Wed Celebrate GIS Day with an SRLN Map Webinar

Posted on November 11, 2016 by richardzorza

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 →

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More Dramatic Statistics on Representation Imbalance for Collection, Landlord/Tenant, and Small Claims

Posted on September 20, 2016 by richardzorza

Recently, I blogged about some numbers derived from NCSC data for representation status and imbalance.  The numbers are stunning, here, and here.  As I put it then: We Now Have the Data That shows That The One-Side-Self-Represented Case is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bankruptcy, Chasm with Communities, Debt Collction, Evictions, Small Claims, SRL Statistics | 3 Comments

Data Maps Come to Access to Justice Planning

Posted on September 15, 2016 by richardzorza

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 | Comments Off on Data Maps Come to Access to Justice Planning

We Now Have Data To Help Prioritize ATJ Strategic Focuses

Posted on August 28, 2016 by richardzorza

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 →

Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Attorney-Client, Court Management, Housing, Legal Aid, Metrics, Non-Lawyer Practice, SRL Statistics | 4 Comments

We Now Have the Data That shows That The One-Side-Self-Represented Case is the Dominant Case Situation in US Civil State Courts and That We Need a Fundamental Rethink of The State Civil Justice System

Posted on August 26, 2016 by richardzorza

Some data from NCSC should be helpful in relating access to justice strategy to overall legal system changes. This is because this data simply blows away the way we think about the courts. The dominant analytic mode has always been … Continue reading →

Posted in 100% Access Strategy and Campaign, Access to Justice Generally, Attorney-Client, Self-Help Services, SRL Statistics, Systematic Change | 3 Comments

Newly Released “Community Needs and Services Study” Should Trigger Some Rethinking About Barriers and Needs

Posted on August 8, 2014 by richardzorza

Rebecca Sandefur and the American Bar Foundation have just (today) released Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Findings from the Community Needs and Services Study (CNSS). This very important study went into a Midwestern city and asked people whether they … Continue reading →

Posted in Research and Evalation, SRL Statistics | 2 Comments

How Could Interpreter Costs Be Understood So That They are Not In Conflict With ATJ Goals

Posted on June 21, 2014 by richardzorza

A recent excellent New York Times article by Fernanda Santos about how the push to provide interpreters is putting strain on court budgets, and forcing delay or reduction of other expenditures, highlights the long term costs of state inattention to … Continue reading →

Posted in Court Management, Funding, LEP, SRL Statistics | Comments Off on How Could Interpreter Costs Be Understood So That They are Not In Conflict With ATJ Goals

Use of Algorithms to Assess Accuracy of Tweets — Implications

Posted on December 15, 2012 by richardzorza

A very timely article in Slate discusses the use of algorithms to assess the accuracy of tweets.  The immediate use is with the idea of helping law enforcement filter out the false from the accurate in rapidly developing situations.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, SRL Statistics | 1 Comment

Maybe These Poster Proposals from SRLN Will Stimulate Ideas

Posted on November 13, 2012 by richardzorza

As I have previously blogged, this Friday is the deadline for Poster Proposals for the open gathering in Chicago on Research into Access to Justice to be held on December 7.  Proposals should be sent to A2Jworkshop@abfn.org by Friday, November … Continue reading →

Posted in Research and Evalation, Simplification, SRL Statistics, Triage | 2 Comments

Collection of SRL Data

Posted on February 29, 2012 by richardzorza

Yet more useful info from the Texas forms process. Here is the summary of national data on SRL distribution gathered by the Texas Access to Justice Commission: Nationwide 2009 survey by Self-Represented Litigation Network 60% judges reported increase in pro … Continue reading →

Posted in Access to Justice Boards, Research and Evalation, SRL Statistics | 1 Comment

Article on Justice Index in National Law Journal

Posted on December 6, 2011 by richardzorza

David Udell and Cara Anna of the National Center for Access to Justice have an article in the National Law Journal on their proposed National Justice Index.  The core idea: Which states’ courts are in the worst condition? Which, despite … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget Issues, Court Management, Metrics, Research and Evalation, SRL Statistics | 1 Comment