The Law Society represents, promotes, and supports solicitors, publicising their unique role in providing legal advice, ensuring justice for all and upholding the rule of law. Innovation and technology are playing a critical role in ensuring everyone has ...

The Washington State Supreme Court (courts.wa.gov) and the Washington State Bar Association (wsba.org) created an innovative program to expand the provision of legal services. Limited Licensed Legal Technicians (LLLTs) represent a new legal role that buil ...

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 ...

The is the Final Report of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice 's (CFCJ's) Attrition Study entitled Civil Non-Family Cases Filed in the Supreme Court of BC Research, Results and Lessons Learned. This study, which is a part of the CFCJ's lar ...

This is a comprehensive evaluation of the Glen Burnie District Court Self-Help Center that helped lay the groundwork for Maryland now completely statewide and all court levels centralized self-help, see more at https://mdcourts.gov/selfhelp. From the intr ...

This study focuses on the particular concerns of rural jurisdictions in meeting the challenges of  pro se  litigation, examining 25  pro se  assistance programs serving rural or predominantly rural jurisdictions across 17 states. Findings are drawn from s ...

This report documents the services currently available to persons in this situation in Arkansas. It shows that for the most part they are left on their own and flounder. The recommendations of the report set forth a comprehensive, but relatively inexpensi ...

Final report from an evaluation of three pilot Family Law Information Centers-- in Los Angeles, Fresno, and Sutter Counties-- which were established by the California Legislature in 1999 as a response to the increasing number of litigants appearing in fam ...

  In April of 2001, the Empirical Research Group of the UCLA School of Law was commissioned by San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services and the County of Los Angeles to "design a system, procedure and framework for evaluating the effectiveness ...

Sonoma County Legal Aid's annual evaluations of the Sonoma County Self Help Access Center (SHAC) are based on data captured from client entry/exit surveys, follow-up interviews, court observation, and court staff interviews. This is the evaluation re ...