Resource: Resource Guide on Serving Self-Represented Litigants Remotely (SRLN 2016)
The Resource Guide provides options for courts and other entities interested in providing services to self-represented litigants using means that are not face-to-face, instead of, or in addition to, in-person alternatives such as walk-in services, workshops, and clinics. It also includes information regarding technology and business process options and describes a study of how eight sites provide remote self-help services to self-represented litigants and its principal findings and recommendations.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network, John Greacen
Article: Liberty, Justice, and Legal Automata (Lauritsen 2013)
This article, by Mark Lauritsen @marclauritsen, expands on the analysis begun by the author in a computer science journal piece called Are We Free To Code The Law? The focus there was whether interactive online services for legal self-helpers can be prohibited as the unauthorized practice of law. Put more generally, how should we legal automata be regulated? Do they serve justice? Are people at liberty to create and distribute them?
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Mark Lauritsen
News: Child Support Federal Grant Matchmaking Expands Access to Justice by Promoting Strategic Collaborations (OCSE 2016)
The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) continues to be a driving force in ATJ through a variety of funding strategies that support innovations benefiting self-represented litigants (SRLs) including:
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
Article: Delivery of Legal Services to Maryland Public Librarians (MSBA 2016)
In Maryland, each year the use of public library services rises as the state’s population increases. Along with this increase in library customers, the number of people who need, but struggle to afford legal help, continues to grow. So it follows that more and more self-represented litigants find themselves in a public library.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Sandy Brewer and Dave Pantzer
New GuideClearly Plug-In Streamlines Triage and Increases Access on Self-Help Desktop and Mobile Websites (News 2016)
Meet GuideClearly, the newest Open Advocate plug-in designed by LSC partner Urban Insight aimed at guiding website visitors directly to the content and information they seek.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis
News: Language Access: Key Component for 100% Access (SRLN 2016)
In the last few years, state courts throughout the country have renewed their focus on language access planning and services for limited-English proficient (LEP) users. These efforts have largely occurred in response to the DOJ’s 2010 letter reminding courts of Title VI obligations as well as rapidly growing LEP populations nationwide (see Center for Immigration Studies 2015 report).
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
cristina llop
Article: Unified Family Courts: Recent Developments in Twelve States (Greacen 2003)
A look at how courts in twelve states were enhancing access to justice for families in response to a 2002 white paper from the Conference of State Court Administrators on improving family courts. The white paper recognized the national interest in improving how state courts handled cases involving families and identified the weaknesses of traditional trial Court approaches to these matters.
Year published:
2003
Document Author:
John Greacen
Article: A Handbook For Courts (Barnes and Greacen 2000)
A review of Caseflow Management, The Heart of Court Management in the New Millennium, a book the authors note, "should rest on the shelves of every court administrator and chief judge." In the book Tom Henderson of the National Center for State Courts' documents the previous 30 years of experience with reducing delay in state trial courts.
Recommended Citation: Julia H. Barnes & John Greacen, A Handbook for Courts, 85 Judicature 5 (March-April 2002).
Year published:
2000
Document Author:
Julia H. Barnes & John Greacen
Article: What Standards Should We Use To Judge Our Courts? (Greacen 1988)
Two themes run through this article-the search for standards by which to measure the performance of courts and the search for ways to improve the courts' public image. Grecean notes that although definitive standards for judging courts did not exist at the time of the article's publication, there were many useful measures. He added that an ongoing effort to both further define and meet standards would enhance public respect for the courts.
Year published:
1988
Document Author:
John Greacen
Rhode Island Judiciary Provides Equal Access for Individuals with Limited English Proficiency (Rhode Island 2016)
In April 2016, the Rhode Island Justice Department announced the closure of its case concerning the provision of language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the state court system following the successful implementation of reforms by the Rhode Island Judiciary.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Rhode Island