With in-person support for SRLs limited or halted due to COVID, a significant number of self-help services are continuing to serve the public even when their court might be closed. The challenge in this circumstance becomes how to tell the public that sel ...

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 Justice in Government Project (JGP) at American University, with support from Pew Charitable Trusts, seeks to support funding for legal aid and improve initiatives that address the access to justice gap. The JGP's Civil Legal System Modernization ...

The WriteClearly.org Plain Language Library was adapted by Transcend under a Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant (LSC TIG #9061). This resource provides a repository of example documents for a range of legal aid and court forms, includi ...

The Winter 2019 issue of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' quarterly journal, Daedalus, “Access to Justice” features twenty-four essays that examine the national crisis in civil legal services facing poor and low-income Americans: from the ...

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 ...

The “Legal Navigator” is an online platform designed to be used by individuals alone or with non-legal providers with whom they may already be working to address a variety of other issues.  We are automating self-help in a new way that replicates the ques ...

The Academy produced this short video, defining the civil justice gap, to support the work of the Making Justice Accessible initiative and the release of its final report, Civil Justice for All.  Run time: 4 minutes 45 seconds. Recommended citation: Ameri ...

This is a podcast in the Legal Services Corporation series "Talk Justice."  Mary McClymont is interviewed by LSC president Ron Flagg about the use of non lawyer navigators in state courts, Talk Justice: Episode Fourteen- How Non-Lawyer Navigator ...

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 ...