Beginning in 2005, the New York State courts began developing Document Assembly Programs for use in its Help Centers using A2J Author for the front-end, HotDocs software for the back-end, and LawHelp Interactive server to host the programs. By 2009, this ...

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-re ...

This report investigates the current and possible uses of translation tools, including fully-automated machine translation and a somewhat different translation technology, translation memory. Translation memory re-uses whole phrases that an expert has pre ...

This article presents the results from the first quantitative readability study of plain language court forms in the United States. Sixty citizens on a jury panel were selected to respond to brief questionnaires that tested relative comprehension of plain ...

In 2012 and 2013, the Legal Services Corporation convened a national Technology Summit that brought together more than 75 representatives of legal aid programs, courts, government, and business as well as technology experts, academics, and private practit ...

Rosie's Place, www.rosiesplace.org, a women's shelter in Boston, conducted a survey in 2015 of social services workers in Massachusetts and found that 1) social workers are providing a very significant amount of legal information to their client ...

The Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) published two reports following their research on the role of community workers helping people with legal problems. As 'trusted intermediaries', these frontline workers – including from community organizations ...

Civil Justice for All is the final report of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences initaitive, Making Justice Accessible: Designing Legal Services for the 21st Century. The project assessed the consequences of the justice gap, reviewed existing civi ...

Measuring Civil Justice for All, a white paper of the American Academy’s Making Justice Accessible initiative, identifies the essential facts that should be collected about civil justice activity in the United States and the entities best placed to collec ...

Village Capital and American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact (AmFam Institute) prepared this report to support justice tech efforts and initiatives. From the report: In September 2020, Village Capital and the AmFam Institute con ...