Articles & SRLN Briefs

Courthouses with dress codes require the public to conform to particular standards of attire in order to enter.

Year published: 2018

Document Author: Harvard Law Review

The Justice for All Initiative envisions a future in which civil justice is administered through a continuum of services, from self-help materials to alternative dispute resolution to limited-scope or full legal representation. In this continuum, individual litigants receive precisely the help they need—no more and no less, and lawyers work “at the top of their licenses,” able to trim overhead to increase profit.

Year published: 2021

Document Author: SRLN

This Law 360 article, Could 2021 Be The Year Of Civil Justice Reform?, describes the potential for more civil justice reforms in 2021, including more nonlawyer navigators in our state courts.  

Year published: 2021

Document Author: Cara Bayles

This Court New Ohio article, Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support, describes how new funding helps support the use of social workers as nonlawyer navigators in the Franklin County Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center.    

Year published: 2020

Document Author: Csaba Sukosd

In this piece for Democracy Journal, Vivek Maru of Namati (an international legal empowerment NGO), analyzes the restrictions on legal help in the United States and argues for an overhaul of unauthorized practice of law regulation to allow for more actors to respond to the justice crisis created by COVID-19. Article is attached or found at https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/give-the-people-the-law/. 

Year published: 2020

Document Author: Vivek Maru

Richard Zorza, the driving force behind the creation of the Self-Represented Litigation Network, died April 13, 2019. A copy of SRLN's notice that was shared on our listservs is attached below. This page is a collection of some of the many resolutions and awards bestowed on Richard in recognition of his work, as well as memories from his colleagues. It will be updated as we receive additional information.

Year published: 2019

Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) Recent Activities and Developments January 2018 Katherine Alteneder, Executive Director, katherine@srln.org Renee Danser, Deputy Director, Renee@srln.org Alison Davis-Holand, Data & GIS Manager, alison@srln.org Eduardo Gonzalez, Georgetown Legal Tech Fellow, eduardo@srln.org  

In the Access to Justice space, design thinking practices from the technology space are increasingly embraced to improve the way people access legal services and to improve and simplify the processes themselves. Reviewing practices around the country, we see that sustainable innovation in the access to justice space happens when design thinking is adopted and implemented in our core practices, and when that happens we can effectively identify where technology can offer scalable, sustainable and accessible resources.

Year published: 2017

Document Author: Katherine Alteneder, Eduardo Gonzalez

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

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Document Author: Self-Represented Litigation Network