Resource: Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace (HRC 2022)
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation published the following guidelines for Talking About Pronouncs in the Workplace. This document provides an overview the history and importance of pronouns, persistent gender norms, and recommended ways to create opportunities to ask or offer pronouns.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Resource: ABA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources (ABA 2022)
The American Bar Association curated a webpage of resources for bar associations to leverage for their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Included in these resources are:
Bar Diversity Plans
Toolkits & Other Resources
Profession/Justice System Initaitives
Learning Initiatives
Studies & Benchmarking
Statements & Polices
Pipeline Programs
Other ABA Resources
Other Websites
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
ABA
Website: Autistic Hoya Advocacy Blog
Autistic Hoya is an advocay blog cureated by Lydia X. Z. Brown, "a writer, dreamer, organizer, builder, advocate, attorney, activist, strategist, educator, trainer, consultant, and speaker." This blog focuses on a wide range of issues with particular attention to the intersection of justice, disability, and neurodiversity. For a detailed brief of these topics, see the Autistic Hoya Primer page.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
Lydia X. Z. Brown
Resource: Paths to Racial Justice (IAALS 2021)
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at University of Denver launched an series of conversations about the pathways to realizing justice for all. In their Paths to Justice Summit Series, IAALS explored the impacts of the pandemic, access to legal help, and racial justice. The programs highlighted below relate to their webinars on Racial Justice.
Visit the IAALS Paths to Justice Summit Series homepage to explore other topics surrounding this project.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
IAALS
Resolution: ABA Revised Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid (ABA 2021)
On August 9, 2021, the Amerian Bar Association (ABA) adopted revised Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid that provided comprehensive revisions that updated the previously revised 2006 standards.
Of particular note were standards around Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility with specific commentary on the distinctions between structural and institutional racism, and disability discrimination.
STANDARD 4.4 ON RACE EQUITY, DISABILITY DIVERSITY, CROSS-CULTURAL SENSITIVITY, AND CULTURAL HUMILITY STANDARD
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
ABA
Resource: A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Racial Justice Toolkit for Civil Legal Aid Organizations (IDEAL 2021)
The Legal Aid of California's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability In Legal Aid (IDEAL) Board Committee developed this toolkit to provide organizers the tools necessary to make changes in their practices, polices, and frameworks to build more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accountable organizations. The IDEAL Board Committee is part of the Legal Aid Association of California's (LAAC) Board.
This is a living document, and you can accesss new changes here.
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
IDEAL, LAAC
Article: Designing Digital Services for Equitable Access (McDonald 2021)
In 1995, the U.S. National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration was the first government body to empirically document the existence of the “digital divide”—the gap between those who do and do not have ready access to internet service. The NTIA report assumed that there was “an” internet and that fixed-line broadband to a personal computer would be the common denominator technology to enable access. But the world didn’t primarily adopt fixed-line broadband. Instead, mobile phones and the mobile internet became the primary mode of access.
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
Sean McDonald
Resource: National Center for State Courts Tiny Chat 79: Social Workers and Self-Help (NCSC 2022)
In this Tiny Chat hosted by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Robby Southers, of the Franklin County Ohio Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center, explains how his court uses social workers as navigators in its self help offerings. Watch it here, NCSC Tiny Chat 79: Social Workers and Self-Help.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
Resource: No-Code Technology Directory (A2J Tech 2022)
Our colleagues at A2J Tech have created a repository of No-Code software you can browse. Check out the A2J Tech Directory of No-Code Technology. The collection includes over 160 no-code technology you can use to launch your legal tech solution.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
A2J Tech
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (January 2022)
In our January 2022 webinar, our speakers – Marilyn Smith, Grace Spulak, and Samira Nazem – discussed their emerging innovative initiatives on the critical subject of eviction diversion programming in and around the courts, especially highlighting the utilization of nonlawyer navigators to help SRLs on these matters. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator January 2022 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
SRLN