This legal help hotline "handled roughly 50,000 free consultations for 28,000 clients last year." http://bit.ly/1SgkIV4  A report from February access to justice conference in Canada: http://storify.com/IDEALawDal  Report shows how much it costs ...

News this week: Thoughts For Federal Agencies and A2J Commissions Building on the White House LAIR Meeting via Richard Zorza: https://twitter.com/rzorza/status/716795921170706432 New Plain Language toolkit launches in Ontario: https://twitter.com/winkleri ...

SRLN's Live Tweets and content sharing from the Pre-Conference and general EJC this week can be found here:  https://twitter.com/SRLN15 Showcase of Access to Justice Drupal projects and free webinar:  http://drupal.openadvocate.org/node/5 Opportuniti ...

Council of Economic Advisors Report on Costs and Benefits of Incarceration Versus Other Approaches via Richard Zorza: https://accesstojustice.net/2016/04/29/council-of-economic-advisors-repo... (accesstojustice.net) A report on the growth and use of of on ...

Lisa Foster’s ATJ Commissions Meeting Speech Focuses on Big Changes (accesstojustice.net) Law students in Canada develop app for court admins to help unclog the courts and improve access to justice: bit.ly/TRvr-AppCrt (cbc.ca) Consortium on Racial/Ethnic ...

Can legal aid hotlines help people overcome the obstacles to justice (law.com)? A look at the way courts are (or aren't) adjusting to legal tech changes in the UK via The Economist (economist.com) On the future of legal services for the poor (longrea ...

Why now may be a good time for those working in access to justice to approach funders: https://accesstojustice.net/2016/04/09/maybe-a-good-time-to-approach-phi... EU's Justice Scoreboard offers comparison of A2J across Europe: tps://lnkd.in/eiVHiQr P ...

What are we learning about self-represented litigants who e-file? Who are they? Where are they? What cases do they file? How do the tools work for them? Using identical survey instruments, the Superior Court in Orange County and the Texas Office of Court ...

The Self-Represented Litigation Network is excited to present the Pre-Conference to the ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference on May 11, 2016, in Chicago, IL. This program brings together leaders and stakeholders from the access to justice community, includi ...

Meet Gina, the online assistant that is helping tens of thousands of people at the Los Angeles Superior Court handle their traffic citations online. When visiting the traffic section of the court's website, litigants can interact with Gina to pay a t ...