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Category Archives: Systematic Change
ABA Boies-Olsen Report On Court Budgets is Out — Goes Beyond Budget Issues
The David Boies – Theodore Olsen Report is out. This you will recall, is the ABA project on the need to protect the court system during the funding crisis, and is another initiative bringing together these once (and maybe future) … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Issues, Funding, Systematic Change, Technology, Transparency
Tagged ABA, Boies, NCSC, Olsen
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Public Defender Versus Assigned Counsel, Implications for Mixed Model Advocacy
Thomas Cohen, at the NIJ Bureau of Justice Statistics, has published an interesting study on who is most effective at criminal defense. Bottom line, from the abstract: Specifically, this paper examines whether there are differences between defense counsel type and … Continue reading
NCSC Issues Compilation of Re-Engineering Ideas
The National Center for State Courts has issued an eleven page complication of ideas for re-engineering. Lots of good stuff. Here is the summary chart:
Posted in Document Assembly, Forms, Systematic Change, Technology, Triage
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Foundations for Effectve Innovation in the Justice System
All of us interested in innovation (and I hope that means all of us) should find this paper both interesting and a useful tool to challenge our institutions to lay the foundations for enhanced innovations. Maurits Barendrecht, at Tilburg University … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Systematic Change
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Legal Services at the Mall — the UK Model
As you probably know in a general way, the UK is deregulating certain aspects of the legal profession. But you may not know how fast things are changing. Here is one big consequence reported on the Legal Futures Blog. The … Continue reading
Lawyer Surplus in the US — Action By Law Schools For New Delivery Models Long Overdue
The New York Tines Economix blog collects data on the lawyer surplus. Key scary statistic: “In fact, across the country, there were twice as many people who passed the bar in 2009 (53,508) as there were openings (26,239)” The post … Continue reading
Posted in Law Schools, Middle Income, Systematic Change
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A Way to Move Forward on Language Access — Create a Laboratory Language Access Court
For many, the language access/participation issue (see here for recent blog on terminology) seems overwhelming. While agreeing strongly with the goals, folks are anxious over the required levels of expenditures, and nervous of possible diversion of money urgently needed for … Continue reading
Access to Justice Commissions Gathering Keynotes: CJ Lippman and Justice Zelon on Legal Aid Funding and Court Transformation
Here are some of the highlights from the presentations of Chief Judge Lippman of New York, and Associate Justice Laurie Zelon of the California Court of Appeal to the gathering at the Equal Justice Conference of Access to Justice Commissions … Continue reading
Transparency Research Conference Starts to Show Perhaps Lagging Legal System the Way
I am a fan of transparency — a word sadly apparently only recently gaining currently in the legal community. Here is a chart generated on Google’s Ngram Viewer, showing the increase in the use of the words “openness” and “transparency” … Continue reading
Posted in Systematic Change
Tagged Tramsparency
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NewsMaker Interview: Diane Braunstein Nominated for Federal Employee Award for SSA Compassionate Allowance program That Speeds Decisions For Certain “Seriously and Terminally Ill Individuals”
Our next NewsMaker Interview is with Diane Braunstein, one of the finalists for the Federal Governments 2011 Citizen Services Award, whose work in the Social Security Administration will be of particular interest to those working in access to justice. (Disclosure: … Continue reading
Posted in Administative Proecdure, Newsmaker Interview, Systematic Change, Technology
Tagged Disability, Spocial Security
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Taking Advdantage of the Moment of Opportunity — An Institutional Strategy for Access
As I indicated in a recent prior post about the EJC, this is a moment of great opportunity for the access to justice community, but one that is occurring in a complex larger environment. The complexity of the environment may … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Boards, Access to Justice Generally, Funding, LSC, Systematic Change
Tagged DOJ, SJI
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Headline Observations From the 2011 EJC – We Must Grab This Moment of Opportunity
Some thoughts and conclusions from the 2011 Equal Justice Conference (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it was not!) Jim Sandman is a great speaker and a powerful voice for access to justice. He tells a powerful personal story, carries … Continue reading
Foreclosure and Court Simplificaton Model: South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Orders No Foreclosure Without Prior Opportunity to Participate in Modification Programs
The South Carolina Supreme Court is quietly becoming an access to justice leader. This week the Court, through an Administrative Order issued by Chief Jean Toal, takes another simple and sensible step, this time in the foreclosure area. The Order … Continue reading
Posted in Foreclosure, Systematic Change
Tagged Certification, South Carolina
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Calculating Broad Economic Jobs and Tax Impact of Court Cuts — Bloomberg Businessweek Cites Los Angeles Study — Methodology, National Court Funding Campaign
Bloomberg Businessweek has a useful story on the impact of court cuts on the overall economy. As well as quoting Steve Zack (ABA President), David Boies (Prop 8, Microsoft and Bush Gore litigator) and David Udell (National Center for Access … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Budget Issues, Systematic Change
Tagged Los Angeles
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Finally Posted — Judges’ Journal Article on Self-Represented Cases: 15 Techniques for Saving Time in Tough Times
This is long overdue, but I thought some of you might like to know that a list of ideas for how judges might respond to the increase in the numbers of self-represented, written by Judges Mark Juhas (of California), Maureen … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice Generally, Judicial Ethics, Self-Help Services, Systematic Change
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