Article: Using Technology to Enhance Access to Justice (Cabral, Chavan, Clarke, Greacen, Hough, Rexer, Ribadeneyra, Zorza 2012)
This is a collection of seven article published in the Fall 2012 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT) as part of LSC's June 2012 technology summit. These articles focus on how to best utilize particular technologies to enhance access to justice in the American legal system.
Year published:
2012
Document Author:
James E. Cabral, Abhijeet Chavan, Thomas M. Clarke, John Greacen, Bonnie Rose Hough, Linda Rexer, Jane Ribadeneyra, Richard Zorza
Website: ABA's Civil Legal Aid Funding Inventory (ABA 2015)
The American Bar Association's Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives chronicles various civil legal aid funding streams including but not limited to legal services, IOLTA, legislative, philanthropic and aother funding sources.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
American Bar Association
Report: Roadmap for Implementing a Successful Unbundled Program (Talia 2005)
This paper provides a case study based on the experience in Contra Costa County, California, as well as other jurisdictions. The purpose of this article is to create a roadmap of the essential and nonessential but desirable components of a successful limited scope program, utilizing successful existing models so that lawyers wishing to implement the concept for the first time in their jurisdictions have the benefit of the considerable work which has gone before.
Year published:
2005
Document Author:
M. Sue Talia
Webinar: Expanding Your Practice Using Limited Scope Representation (Practising Law Institute 2015)
The Expanding Your Practice Using Limited Scope Representation webinar is available in an on-demand format on the Practising Law Institute's Program's (PLI) page.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Practising Law Institute, M. Sue Talia
Guide: Delaware’s Judicial Guidelines for Civil Hearings Involving Self-Represented Litigants (Delaware 2011)
The Delaware Supreme Court adopted these guidelines, effective May 11, 2011, designed to address concerns that Judicial Officers may have regarding balancing self-represented litigants’ perceptions of procedural fairness while maintaining neutrality in the courtroom, particularly when one party is self-represented and one has an attorney.
Year published:
2011
Document Author:
Delaware Supreme Court
SRLN Brief: Case for Key Innovations to Support 100% Access (SRLN 2007)
Collection of single page briefing papers prepared by the SRLN in 2007 to help interested parties make the "case for" key innovations. The following topics are covered:
• The Case for Self-Help Programs
• The Case for Court-Based Forms and Instructions Programs
• The Case for Courtroom Support Process Programs for Self-Represented Litigation Cases
• The Case for Judicial Education on Self-Represented Litigation
• The Case for Public Law Library Services for the Self-Represented
• The Case for The Discrete Task Assistance Program
Year published:
2007
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
SRLN Brief: Plain Language Resources for 100% Access (SRLN 2015)
What is plain language?
As described by the federal government on plainlanguage.gov, plain language is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it. Plain language is recognized as an essential best practice in all access to justice initiatives. It is an especially important consideration in the development of forms and instructions, but the concepts can also guide simplification efforts.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
SRLN Brief: Integrating Unbundling into Self-Help Services (SRLN 2015)
The states vary tremendously on how they may have integrated unbundling into their service delivery systems. Unbundling is a critical link to devloping a local ecosystem that supports 100% access to justice, and therefore should be a priority area for development in all states. Emerging practices include the following:
Bar or Court Sponsored Unbundled Referral Lists
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
Report: Analysis of Rules That Enable Lawyers to Serve Self-Represented Litigants with Unbundling (ABA 2014)
The white paper, An Analysis of Rules That Enable Lawyers to Serve Self-Represented Litigants, was prepared by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.
Year published:
2014
Document Author:
American Bar Association
Weblinks: Language Access Bench Cards (Multiple States 2015)
As courts develop language access policies, many are developing bench card to standardize bench officer protocols. Examples of a few follow:
Minnesota Bench Card for Courtroom Interpreting
Minnesota Bench Card for Video Remote Interpreting in the Courtroom
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
SRLN