Working Group: Justice Tech Entrepreneurs Webinar Recap
A list of webinar topics and links to recordings
[last updated 11-15-2021]This group seeks to build consensus about how best to deploy, design, and develop justice technology by supporting a community of practice for entrepreneurs delivering ancillary products to courts, legal aid, bar associations, and self-representated litigants.
To request information about how to engage the Justice Tech Working Group, please contact the Working Group facilitator: Eduardo Gonzalez, at eduardo@srln.org.
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
Eduardo Gonzalez, SRLN
Report: Nonlawyer Navigators in State Courts: An Emerging Consensus (McClymont 2019)
This report provides a survey of the national landscape of nonlawyer navigator programs in state courts assisting self-represented litigants. It includes an analysis of 23 programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It is based on extensive outreach and interviews with more than 60 informants who created, oversee or manage nonlawyer navigator programs in court settings. The report describes program features and offers practical considerations for creating and implementing such programs.
Year published:
2019
Document Author:
Mary McClymont
SRLN GIS Professional Services
SRLN is pleased to make its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping services available to its members to help to drive data-driven solutions in the justice sector. We have staff with expertise in justice data and geospatial analysis and a full suite of Esri ArcGIS software and online tools to analyze your data and integrate it with other data sources to provide insight and answer tough questions on how to improve access to justice.
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
Article: Choose the Right Map Symbology To Make Your Story Shine (Davis-Holland 2018)
Think cartography is all stats and science? Prepare to be surprised by the amount of psychology, art, design, culture, and communication involved in map making and how to choose effective symbology that makes your story and data shine. Great read for those requesting or making maps.
Includes a link to the How to Choose Symbology story map (pictured below) by Alison Davis-Holland.
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
Open to the Public – 2024 How Law Libraries are Serving Self-Represented Litigants Across the Country
The Law Librarians’ Working Group of the Self-Represented Litigation Network with the American Association of Law Libraries Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section Best A2J Practices Committee surveyed law libraries about their services to the self-represented litigant, including self-help programs. Results are displayed in this Story Map. This research and analysis was developed to expand SRL services among law libraries by demonstrating best practices for assisting SRLs.
Year published:
2024
Document Author:
SRLN
Report: Nonlawyer Navigators in State Courts: Part II - An Update: New Energy, Urgency and Possibilities (McClymont 2023)
In 2023, Mary McClymont published Report: Nonlawyer Navigators in State Courts: Part II - An Update: New Energy, Urgency and Possibilities as a follow-on to her original research of how Navigators provide help in the state courts. She discovered tremendous growth and momentum. This report details those findings, and offfers improtant information about funding strategies.
Year published:
2023
Document Author:
Mary McClymont
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (January 2023)
In our January 2023 webinar, we took another look at virtual services. Shereice Perry and Lisa Colpoys discussed the details behind managing a virtual navigator program. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator January 2023 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2023
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (November 2022)
In our November 2022 webinar, we were able to hear from Sarah Song, Supervising Senior Program Manager of the Access to Justice Division at the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts about some of the limitations to technology advancements in the courts that point to the continued need for human-based assistance for self-represented litigants. Magistrate Gene Edwards of the Franklin County Municipal Court also spoke to us on finding out how to get the judiciary involved and benefits of navigator programs from the perspective of the bench.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (May 2022)
In our May 2022 webinar, Mary Ferwerda, Suzan Chau, Sylvia Lovely, and Robby Southers described their current experiences and offered tips about seeking planning and operational federal AmeriCorps grants to support their navigator program work. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator May 2022 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (March 2022)
In our March 2022 webinar, Rob Wall, Director of Hamilton County Municipal Help Center, spoke about new developments in his court navigator program, demonstrating how programs can and have evolved positively, even during Covid. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator March 2022 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
SRLN