The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice has started using the SRLN demographics maps for presentations to circuit clerks, circuit court judges, civil legal aid and pro bono practitioners. “The maps helped provide context for why access ...

Below are examples of our GIS and mapping work including online Story Maps, interactive mapping applications, and static maps from a select number of states. For a national picture down to the county level, please see America's Civil Courts: Whom Do ...

The Justice in Government Project (JGP) at American University, with support from Pew Charitable Trusts, seeks to support funding for legal aid and improve initiatives that address the access to justice gap. The JGP's Civil Legal System Modernization ...

This article, by Mark Lauritsen @marclauritsen, expands on the analysis begun by the author in a computer science journal piece called Are We Free To Code The Law? The focus there was whether interactive online services for legal self-helpers can be prohi ...

In light of court closures and other operational disruptions occasioned by COVID 19, many court-based nonlawyer navigator programs around the country which had previously provided only in person services to help self-represented litigants (SRLs) in their ...

In this article, David Holtermann, general counsel of the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois who was involved in drafting an early proposal for the limited scope rule changes ultimately approved by the Illinois Supreme Court, discusses the rule changes and po ...

The Chicago Bar Foundation published a comprehensive toolkit on unbundling to assist attorneys who are licensed in Illinois and seeking to offer limited scope representation as one of their service offerings to potential clients who have civil matters in ...

The following session was held at the Legal Services Corporation's Innovations in Technology Conference 2019, New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information, including access to previous conference materials, visit the LSC's Innovations in Technol ...

Below is a collection of sample forms for unbundled attorney engagement agreements and materials related to unbundling legal services. This is a sampling of state resources, additional information for each state can be found on the American Bar Associatio ...

The Chicago Bar Association's (CBA) Limited Scope Referral Panels are lists of experienced private attorneys offering limited scope representation among their service offerings. The area of law the panels cover are landlord-tenant, domestic relations ...