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Report: Social Work Practices in California Legal Aid Organizations (OneJustice and The Legal Aid Association of California 2021)

Report: Social Work Practices in California Legal Aid Organizations (OneJustice and The Legal Aid Association of California 2021)

This report seeks to illuminate one particular aspect of the legal aid landscape: the confluence of social work services and civil legal services, which can often be siloed into separate and fragmented service delivery systems. The idea of removing the bo ...

Resolution: In Support of Continuing Efforts to Meet Civil Legal Needs (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

Resolution: In Support of Continuing Efforts to Meet Civil Legal Needs (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

In February of 2021, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators adopted Resolution 2 In Support of Continuing Efforts to Meet Civil Legal Needs. After extensive findings setting out the need, especially during the CO ...

Report: Providing Legal Services Remotely: A Guide to Available Technologies and Best Practices (DLA Piper, Legal Empowerment Network, New Perimeter, and Open Society Justice Initiative 2021)

Report: Providing Legal Services Remotely: A Guide to Available Technologies and Best Practices (DLA Piper, Legal Empowerment Network, New Perimeter, and Open Society Justice Initiative 2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to confront the reality that providing legal services remotely is not only necessary to meet the needs of clients, but it is also in the best interest of public health and reducing the risk of infection. Meeting wit ...

Report: Mismatched and Mistaken: How the Use of an Inaccurate Private Database Results in SSI Recipients Unjustly Losing Benefits (Mancini, Lang, and Wu 2021)

Report: Mismatched and Mistaken: How the Use of an Inaccurate Private Database Results in SSI Recipients Unjustly Losing Benefits (Mancini, Lang, and Wu 2021)

In the fiscal year 2018, the Social Security Administration (SSA) began using a data set from LexisNexis (Lexis) called Accurint for Government on a widespread basis to determine whether recipients of needs-based government assistance had unreported real ...

Resolution: In Support of Remote and Virtual Hearings (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

Resolution: In Support of Remote and Virtual Hearings (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

In July 2021, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators approved Resolution 2 In Support of Remote and Virtual Hearings. They recognized that remote technology was a vital tool for courts during the COVID-19 pandemi ...

Resolution: In Support of Process Simplification (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

Resolution: In Support of Process Simplification (CCJ/COSCA 2021)

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 ...

Report: Better _______: Strategies for User-Informed Legal Design (Michigan Advocacy Program and Graphic Advocacy Project 2021)

Report: Better_______: Strategies for User-Informed Legal Design (Michigan Advocacy Program and Graphic Advocacy Project 2021)

In 2019, the Michigan Advocacy Program (MAP) received a Technology Initiative Grant (TIG) from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to bring UX design and usability testing training to the justice community. After having struggled with these topics in the ...

Online Course: Creating Pathways to Civil Legal Justice (WebJunction 2021)

Online Course: Creating Pathways to Civil Legal Justice (WebJunction 2021)

Barriers to civil legal justice disproportionately affect low-income people in the US, creating the justice gap—the divide between the civil legal needs of low-income people and access to the resources to meet those needs. Public libraries are well-positi ...

Article: Could 2021 Be The Year Of Civil Justice Reform? (Law360, Bayles 2021)

Article: Could 2021 Be The Year Of Civil Justice Reform? (Law360, Bayles 2021)

This Law 360 article,  Could 2021 Be The Year Of Civil Justice Reform?, describes the potential for more civil justice reforms in 2021, including more nonlawyer navigators in our state courts.   Recommended Citation: Cara Bayles, Could 2021 Be The Year Of ...

SRLN Brief: Advocacy Strategies & Relationship Building to Improve SRL Services (SRLN 2021)

SRLN Brief: Advocacy Strategies & Relationship Building to Improve SRL Services (SRLN 2021)

The Justice for All Initiative envisions a future in which civil justice is administered through a continuum of services, from self-help materials to alternative dispute resolution to limited-scope or full legal representation. In this continuum, individu ...