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Legal Information v. Legal Advice: Court System Manuals

Legal Information v. Legal Advice: Court System Manuals

The SRLN Administrative Office of the Courts working group collected resources from court systems throughout the country that are used to provide guidance to court personnel about how they should assist the public.  Here is a selection of Court System Man ...

Resource: Title IV-D Funding Resource Guide (SRLN 2014, revised 2017)

Resource: Title IV-D Funding Resource Guide (SRLN 2014, revised 2017)

Many state court systems and individual courts take advantage of federal funding under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to obtain reimbursement for the costs of adjudicating child support and paternity matters when hearings are handled by persons oth ...

Website: California Court-Legal Aid Partnership Grants (Legal Services Trust Fund Commission 2015)

Website: California Court-Legal Aid Partnership Grants (Legal Services Trust Fund Commission 2015)

Each year ten percent of the California's Equal Access Funds allocation is distributed by the Legal Services Trust Fund Commission as Partnership Grants. This funding is available for joint projects of courts and legal services programs to make legal ...

Website: ABA's Civil Legal Aid Funding Inventory (ABA 2015)

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. Funding Un ...

Report: California Courts Self-Help Centers: Report to the Legislature (California 2007)

Report: California Courts Self-Help Centers: Report to the Legislature (California 2007)

This is a report, found at  http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/rpt_leg_self_help.pdf, on the implementation of California's Statewide Action Plan for Self-Represented Litigants. It includes detailed financial and collaboration information in response ...

Report: Natural Allies: Philanthropy and Civil Legal Aid (PWF/Kresge 2014)

This report was prepared by the Public Welfare Foundation and the Kresge Foundation, leaders in philanthropy working to reform the civil legal aid field to ensure 100% access to justice for all Americans. Natural Allies: Philanthropy and Civil Legal Aid, ...

Presentation: Securing Highly Competitive Grant Funds Through Collaborative Efforts and Effective Marketing (Reinhart, Herman 2011)

These are the power point presentation slides used by Don Reinhart, PhD and Madelynn Herman, MA during their presentation at the 2011 ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference (for more conference/preconference materials, please click here). They cover grant wri ...

Paper: Court Simplification In New York State: Budgetary Savings And Economic Efficiencies (Modern Courts 2013)

Paper: Court Simplification In New York State: Budgetary Savings And Economic Efficiencies (Modern Courts 2013)

This paper by the Committee for Modern Courts offers an analysis of the impact of simplification and concludes that in addition to the many substantive advantages of court simplification, including making our courts more understandable to the public and i ...

SRLN Brief: Funding (SRLN 2015)

Funding for SRL services comes from a variety of sources, including: state and local government appropriations; federal funding including  VAWA  for cases involving domestic violence,  Title IV-D funds  for cases involving child support, and a number of o ...

Resource: Pro Bono Innovation Fund (LSC 2015)

Resource: Pro Bono Innovation Fund (LSC 2015)

In March 2011, the LSC Board of Directors formed the Pro Bono Task Force to address the current crisis in legal services, where at least 50 percent of eligible low-income individuals seeking help from our grantees are turned away due to insufficient resou ...