United States

  A giant congratulations to our SRLN 2021 Forms Competition Winners!   Automated Forms Category: UMKC School of Law, Bloch Law Library  

Year published: 2021

Document Author: SRLN

The Winter 2019 issue of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' quarterly journal, Daedalus, “Access to Justice” features twenty-four essays that examine the national crisis in civil legal services facing poor and low-income Americans: from the challenges of providing quality legal assistance to more people, to the social and economic costs of an often unresponsive legal system, to the opportunities for improvement offered by new technologies, professional innovations, and fresh ways of thinking about the crisis.

Year published: 2019

Document Author: American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Academy produced this short video, defining the civil justice gap, to support the work of the Making Justice Accessible initiative and the release of its final report, Civil Justice for All.  Run time: 4 minutes 45 seconds. Recommended citation: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Civil Justice Gap (Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020) https://www.amacad.org/civil-justice-gap-video

Year published: 2020

Document Author: American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Measuring Civil Justice for All, a white paper of the American Academy’s Making Justice Accessible initiative, identifies the essential facts that should be collected about civil justice activity in the United States and the entities best placed to collect that information. It also describes a range of data access standards that would help to guide the use of civil justice data for administrative and research purposes.

Year published: 2021

Document Author: American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Civil Justice for All is the final report of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences initaitive, Making Justice Accessible: Designing Legal Services for the 21st Century. The project assessed the consequences of the justice gap, reviewed existing civil justice initiatives around the country, and prioritized solutions. It was led by Kenneth Frazier (Merck & Company, Inc.), John Levi (Sidley Austin, LLP; Legal Services Corporation), and Martha Minow (Harvard Law School).

Year published: 2020

Document Author: American Academy of Arts & Sciences

In our March 2021 webinar, Sam Scarrow, Media Relations Manager at Voices for Civil Justice, presented on Fundamentals of Advocacy Communications, including objective setting, audience mapping, message development, and tactics including the news media. This kind of training should help any who are interested in pushing forward court navigator programs with others (to the court, the broader public, and more), or any other types of access to justice concerns.

Year published: 2021

Document Author: SRLN

The WriteClearly.org Plain Language Library was adapted by Transcend under a Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant (LSC TIG #9061). This resource provides a repository of example documents for a range of legal aid and court forms, including service agreements, retainer forms, small claims court forms, and more.

Document Author: Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc., WriteClearly.org

Judicial Resources

Year published: 2021

Document Author: Katherine Alteneder

In our February 2021 webinar, Robby Southers, Managing Attorney for the Franklin County Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center, offered lessons learned from his own experience in pitching and building navigator programs there in Ohio.  Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator February 2021 webinar via this link! 

Year published: 2021

Document Author: SRLN

In February of 2021, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators adopted Resolution 2 In Support of Continuing Efforts to Meet Civil Legal Needs. After extensive findings setting out the need, especially during the COVID pandemic, they resolved:

Year published: 2021

Document Author: CCJ/COSCA