Program Assessment This program assessment tool (“tool”) is designed to produce a “snap–shot” assessment of a court’s services to self-represented litigants, including but not limited to a specific program designed to provide information to them (“program ...

A review of Caseflow Management, The Heart of Court Management in the New Millennium, a book the authors note, "should rest on the shelves of every court administrator and chief judge." In the book Tom Henderson of the National Center for State ...

A look at how courts in twelve states were enhancing access to justice for families in response to a 2002 white paper from the Conference of State Court Administrators on improving family courts. The white paper recognized the national interest in improvi ...

Two themes run through this article-the search for standards by which to measure the performance of courts and the search for ways to improve the courts' public image. Grecean notes that although definitive standards for judging courts did not exist ...

This Report is a useful example for jurisdictions thinking about how to build analysis and support as they develop self-help services. From the table of contents: The Work Group on Self-Representation in the Maryland Courts................................ ...

This page serves as the repository of resources shared during the ABA-SRLN ATJ Commission Working Group calls. Please e-mail sugestions to [email protected]. Powerpoints Using Remote Technologies to Deliver Remote Services to SRLs (Greacen 2016) Further Infor ...

This 2018 Webinar, supported by a Technology Initiative Grant from the Legal Services Corporation to Bay Area Legal Services, Inc., will focus on creating effective legal self-help content using plain language, SEO, and social media strategies. For more i ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...