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Weblinks: The Court Statistics Project (NCSC 2015)

Weblinks: The Court Statistics Project (NCSC 2015)

The Court Statistics Project (courtstatistics.org) (CSP) — a joint project of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) — publishes caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District ...

Weblinks: Elkins Family Law Task Force & Implementation Task Force (Judicial Branch of California 2010, 2013)

Weblinks: Elkins Family Law Task Force & Implementation Task Force (Judicial Branch of California 2010, 2013)

In  Elkins v. Superior Court   (2007) 41 Cal.4th 1337,  the California court recommended that the Judicial Council of California establish a task force to “study and propose measures to assist trial courts in achieving efficiency and fairness in marital d ...

Report: Services for Self-Represented Litigants in Arkansas: A Report to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission (Greacen 2013)

Report: Services for Self-Represented Litigants in Arkansas: A Report to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission (Greacen 2013)

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 ...

Tool: Trial Court Research and Improvement Consortium (TCRIC): Self-Help Program Assessment Tool (John Greacen 2005)

Tool: Trial Court Research and Improvement Consortium (TCRIC): Self-Help Program Assessment Tool (John Greacen 2005)

Program Assessment This program assessment tool (“tool”) is designed to produce a “snap–shot” assessment of a court’s services to self-represented litigants, including but not limited to a specific program designed to provide information to them (“program ...

Report: California Courts Self-Help Centers: Report to the Legislature (California 2007)

Report: California Courts Self-Help Centers: Report to the Legislature (California 2007)

This is a report, found at  http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/rpt_leg_self_help.pdf, on the implementation of California's Statewide Action Plan for Self-Represented Litigants. It includes detailed financial and collaboration information in response ...

Report: Making Self-Help Work: Bet Tzedek’s Conservatorship Clinic (Bet Tzedek 2013)

Report: Making Self-Help Work: Bet Tzedek’s Conservatorship Clinic (Bet Tzedek 2013)

Since 2007, Bet Tzedek Legal Services  has been running a self-help conservatorship clinic in partnership with the Los Angeles Superior Court. Originally designed to serve 150 self-represented litigants per year, the program served more than 1,400 self-re ...

Report: A Comparative Readability Study of Plain Language Court Forms (Mindlin 2012)

Report: A Comparative Readability Study of Plain Language Court Forms (Mindlin 2012)

This article presents the results from the first quantitative readability study of plain language court forms in the United States. Sixty citizens on a jury panel were selected to respond to brief questionnaires that tested relative comprehension of plain ...

Report: Report of the Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice (LSC 2013)

Report: Report of the Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice (LSC 2013)

In 2012 and 2013, the Legal Services Corporation convened a national Technology Summit that brought together more than 75 representatives of legal aid programs, courts, government, and business as well as technology experts, academics, and private practit ...

Weblinks: National Center for State Courts Triage Page (NCSC 2015)

Weblinks: National Center for State Courts Triage Page (NCSC 2015)

The National Center for State Courts(NCSC) provides numerous resources for court personnel who contemplate triage through the lens of case management, which is a critical step towards simplification, use their search feature for "triage". Many o ...

Survey: SRLN Library Working Group National Self-Help in Libraries Survey (SRLN 2013)

Survey: SRLN Library Working Group National Self-Help in Libraries Survey (SRLN 2013)

The Law Librarians’ Working Group of the Self-Represented Litigation Network surveyed law libraries in the summer of 2013 about their services, including self-help programs. The full survey results are available below, as well as maps of the various tiers ...