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News: 2015 TIG Grants Included Five Court Partnership Grants – 2016 Should Bring More As We Build a 100% Access Technology Infrastructure (LSC 2016)
LSC's 2015 TIG grants included five grants to projects being undertaken by legal aid and court partnerships, according to the Request for Letters of Intent to Apply for 2016 Grant Funding we should see significantly more partnership awards in 2016. LOIs are currently being accepted through February 29, 2016, and LSC has identified three areas of particular interest:
Year published: SRLN
Document Author: News, SRLN, Katherine Alteneder
100% Access to Justice ATJ Commissions Courts Legal Aid
Report: Making Self-Help Work: Bet Tzedek’s Conservatorship Clinic (Bet Tzedek 2013)
Since 2007, Bet Tzedek Legal Services has been running a self-help conservatorship clinic in partnership with the Los Angeles Superior Court. Originally designed to serve 150 self-represented litigants per year, the program served more than 1,400 self-represented litigants by 2012, which amounts to more than 40 percent of all new conservatorship filings in the county.
Year published: 2013
Document Author: Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Simplification Courts Allied Professionals Reports Impact of Self-Represented Litigant Innovations on Cost and Efficiency Linking a Self-Help Center to Other Services Automated Forms & E-Filing