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 ...

  With the most recent statistics reporting that 1 in 3 women experience domestic violence, hundreds of thousands of protection orders are filed in New York State Courts each year. The Advocate Family Offense Petition Program offers providers across the s ...

As those of us in the access to justice movement know too well, across the country thousands of people arrive at court every day both unrepresented and unsure of where to go. Many believe that solving this access crisis will require non-lawyer involvement ...

SHARP: Expanding Access to Justice for Rural Californians Meet SHARP (sharpcourts.org), an innovative self-help center model that’s using video conferencing to expand access to justice for self-represented litigants across California’s Butte, Glenn and Te ...

According to the Pew Research Center's Internet and Technology Mobile Fact Sheet (pewresearch.org), sixty-four percent of American adults own a smart phone (www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/), and legal aid organizations i ...