Best Practices: Best Practices For Court Help Centers: A Guide for Court Administrators and Help Center Staff Inside and Outside New York State (New York 2015)
A comprehensive best practices guide developed by New York covering the details of day-to-day operations of a self-help center, including a history of the New York state court help centers, initial considerations, types of services to offer, staffing and responsibilities, help center facilities set-up, central administration and management of center including data collection, center promotion and appendices that include sample forms.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Rochelle Klempner
Book: Reinventing the Practice of Law: Emerging Models to Enhance Affordable Legal Services (ABA 2014)
A compendium of essays on ways in which lawyers can change their practices to improve their environment — for themselves, their clients and their neighborhoods. The book encourages lawyers to step out of the conventional mold and consider how they can create better practices when providing legal services geared toward the individual.
Year published:
2014
Document Author:
Luz Herrera Editor, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services
Report: Report of the Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice (LSC 2013)
In 2012 and 2013, the Legal Services Corporation convened a national Technology Summit that brought together more than 75 representatives of legal aid programs, courts, government, and business as well as technology experts, academics, and private practitioners to explore the role of technology in expanding access to justice.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Legal Services Corporation
Report: The Self-Help Center Census: A National Survey (ABA 2014)
Using responses to an online survey, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services issued “The Self-Help Center Census: A National Survey,” an analysis of court-based legal self-help centers across the country. Nearly half of the approximately 500 self-help centers identified replied to the survey.
Among the findings:
Year published:
2014
Document Author:
American Bar Association
SRLN Brief: Envisioning 100% Access (SRLN 2015)
National Initiative: JUSTICE FOR ALL PROJECT
Over the last fifteen years, leaders from the courts, legal aid programs, private bar associations, and allied professionals have actively pursued innovations to reimagine and redesign the civil legal system so that access to justice is a reality for the millions of people without lawyers who pass through the more than 15,000 state and local courts in America.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
Report: Law Libraries and Access to Justice. A Special Report of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Access to Justice Special Committee (AALL 2014)
This white paper is the work of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL’s) 2013-2014 Access to Justice Special Committee, chaired by Sara Galligan, and explores how all types of law libraries - including private; state, court and county; and academic - contribute to the Access to Justice movement. The report highlights many roles that academic law librarians can and do play in promoting access to justice.
Year published:
2014
Document Author:
American Association of Law Libraries
Article: Ensuring Access to Justice in Tough Economic Times (Broccolina & Zorza 2008)
This article outlines seven suggestions for the courts which require relatively small or easily found upfront investment and minor ongoing expenditures. This article first appeared in the November-December 2008 (Volume 92, Number 3) of JUDICATURE, the Journal of the American Judicature Society.
Year published:
2008
Document Author:
Frank Broccolina, Richard Zorza
Article: Saving Courtroom Time: Techniques for Judges in Self-Represented Cases (Juhas, McKnight, Zelon, Zorza 2009, rev. 2015)
This article discusses 15 techniques that can increase courtroom efficiency when working with self-represented cases, and summarizes many of the practices suggested in the Judicial Curriculum (srln.org).
Recommended Citation: Mark Juhas, Maureen McKnight, Laurie D. Zelon, Richard Zorza, Saving Courtroom Time and Improving the Process in Tough Times: Suggested Techniques for Judges in Self-Represented Cases, SRLN (rev. 2015).
Year published:
2009
Document Author:
Mark Juhas, Maureen McKnight, Laurie Zelon, Richard Zorza
Resource: Access to Justice and Law Libraries (Law Librarians of New England 2011)
This newsletter outlines some of the ways that law librarians can get involved in the access to justice movement.
Year published:
2011
Document Author:
Law Librarians of New England
Article: Law School Firms and Incubators and the Role of the Academic Law Library (Desai 2013)
According to the abstract, this article examines the recently developed postgraduate, law-school-supported programs intended to provide recent graduates with a continued experiential learning environment in order to bridge the gap between law school and law practice. Both law school firms and practice incubators are discussed. Specifically, this article looks at what, if any, role academic law libraries have within these programs. Lastly, ways in which these libraries might possibly add or improve services to the programs are explored.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Sonal Desai