In our March 2021 webinar, Sam Scarrow, Media Relations Manager at Voices for Civil Justice, presented on Fundamentals of Advocacy Communications, including objective setting, audience mapping, message development, and tactics including the news media. Th ...

In our April 2021 webinar, Sacha Steinberger and Kate Crowley Richardson of Legal Link presented a model of using navigators working in the community to help people with civil legal needs.  W atch the recording of the SRLN Navigator April 2021 webinar via ...

In our November 2021 webinar, Michele Cotton, Associate Professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies (LEST) at the University of Baltimore, discussed the innovative Court Navigator Project she directs that engages students as navigators, i ...

In our October 2021 webinar, Lisa Zayas, Director, Division of Access to Justice, Office for Justice Initiatives, NYS Unified Court System discussed an exciting new effort underway to create their Virtual Court Navigator Pilot Program.  Watch the recordin ...

In our September 2021 session, we introduced  two new co-chairs, Robby Southers and Stacey Weiler, who have joined Mary McClymont to lead our group.  Mary Ferwerda, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Justice Center, highlighted the court navigator progra ...

In our July 2021 webinar, Danielle Hirsch spoke about a new funding source and Mary McClymont gave an update on AmeriCorps funding.  Lisa Colpoys and Jill Roberts discussed a new information service called Illinois Court Help, recently launched to connect ...

Under the recently passed American Rescue Plan, there is a major new infusion of federal funding for AmeriCorps programs. In our May 2021 webinar session, we were joined by experts to take a deep dive into seeking AmeriCorps funding for court navigator pr ...

In 1995, the U.S. National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration was the first government body to empirically document the existence of the “digital divide”—the gap between those who do and do not have ready access to internet service. The NTIA ...

In July 2021, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators approved Resolution 3 In Support of Process Simplification. Acknowledging the rise in self-represented litigants in the 21st century, in this resolution, CCJ/C ...

About SRLN- 2020 Report Introduction The composition of state court litigants has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Where complex civil litigation and lawyer represented parties had been the norm, 60-100% of cases today involve at least one pr ...