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Article: Give the People the Law (Maru 2020)

Article: Give the People the Law (Maru 2020)

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 ...

Article: Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support (CNO, Sukosd 2020)

Article: Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support (CNO, Sukosd 2020)

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 Cent ...

Research: “This ‘order’ must be ANNIHILATED”: How Benjamin Austin’s Call to Abolish Lawyers Shaped Early Understandings of Access to Justice, 1786-1819 (Jeon 2020)

Research: “This ‘order’ must be ANNIHILATED”: How Benjamin Austin’s Call to Abolish Lawyers Shaped Early Understandings of Access to Justice, 1786-1819 (Jeon 2020)

Author Kelsea Jeon prepared this senior thesis and submitted this document to the History Department of Yale University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.   Exploring Access to Justice in early America, Kelsea p ...

SRLN COVID-19 Best Practice Tip: Joining Existing Disaster Response Network Ensures Legal Service Integration and Resilience (News 2020)

SRLN COVID-19 Best Practice Tip: Joining Existing Disaster Response Network Ensures Legal Service Integration and Resilience (News 2020)

Floridians know all too well how their lives can be upended by hurricanes. This was especially true for those living in the path of Hurricane Michael, a category 5 storm, that slammed into the Florida Panhandle in October 2018. The region is served by Leg ...

Resource: Washington Courts Access to Justice Technology Principles (Washington State Courts 2020)

Resource: Washington Courts Access to Justice Technology Principles (Washington State Courts 2020)

In 2000, the Supreme Court of Washington issued an Order Approving Access to Justice Technology Principles, as set out in the guidance document, Access to Justice Technology Principles. The following year, in 2001, the Conference of Chief Justice's R ...

Resource: National Center for State Courts Tiny Chat 29: Navigators (NCSC 2021)

Resource: National Center for State Courts Tiny Chat 29: Navigators (NCSC 2021)

In this Tiny Chat hosted by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Danielle and Zach are getting in shape with some tips and a plan from Mary McClymont on how to start a non-lawyer navigator program. Mary offers an overview of the kinds of navigator ...

Resource: Sample Unbundled Attorney Engagement Agreements (Multi-State 2020)

Resource: Sample Unbundled Attorney Engagement Agreements (Multi-State 2020)

Below is a collection of sample forms for unbundled attorney engagement agreements and materials related to unbundling legal services. This is a sampling of state resources, additional information for each state can be found on the American Bar Associatio ...

Report: Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act: Report to the Legislature (Judicial Council of California 2020)

Report: Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act: Report to the Legislature (Judicial Council of California 2020)

On Monday July 13, 2020 at noon eastern, the SRLN Research Working Group hosted a presentation by Bonnie Hough of the California Judicial Council and Kelly Jarvis of NPC Research who reported on the major, multi-year research produced as a result of the C ...

Racial Justice Statements from the Courts (2020)

Racial Justice Statements from the Courts (2020)

After the killing of George Floyd and the national outpouring calling for racial justice in America, many courts issued statements. SRLN is aware of the following. If your state or local court has issued a statement, please send the hyperlink to info@srln ...

Article: Pro Bono Net's Digital Divide Blog Series (PBN 2020)

Article: Pro Bono Net's Digital Divide Blog Series (PBN 2020)

Pro Bono Net's Digital Divide Blog Series Pro Bono Net published a series of blogs focused on exploring COVID-19's impacts on the Digital Divide. The three-part series discusses the exacerbating effects the pandemic has had on communities with l ...