Self-Represented Litigation Network Resolution 1-2017   Supporting Recognition of Chief Judge Eric T. Washington, District of Columbia Court of Appeals WHEREAS, Chief Judge Eric T. Washington has served as vice-chair or chair of the Access, Fairness and P ...

The Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) Civil Justice Improvements Committee's report, Call to Action: Achieving Civil Justice for All, developed with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal ...

From the Executive Summary: On May 20 – 21, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice (ATJ) and National Institute of Justice (NIJ), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), hosted a Civil Legal Aid Research W ...

The Illinois Supreme Court and SRLN created a mapping application to assess the court user's experience in Illinois. “User experience and thinking about our users helps increase efficiencies, helps us know what we don't know, and helps us better ...

This study is unique because it included the self-represented in its survey. From the Abstract: This report is based on surveys that examined the attitudes and perceptions of judges, the family law bar, family court staff, and self-represented litigants r ...

This report was originally commissioned by the Michigan State Bar Foundation to assist Michigan’s Solutions on Self-Help (SOS) Task Force, but modified to serve as a national resource so that it may be of value to other jurisdictions working to enhance su ...

With funding from State Justice Institute, Thomas Clarke of the National Center for State Courts assembled two advisory committees – one to develop the business requirements for a litigant portal, and another to examine the technical requirements necessar ...

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 ...

While many states have reported difficulties in processing probate cases during the Covid-19 pandemic, Alaska has been remarkably successful in moving these cases along, and even to some extent expediting them beyond what had been happening before the cri ...

This discussion paper provides a framework to understand the mechanisms that cultivate reslient access to justice communities. The paper offers universal principles that support community-based justice help systems. In particular, the paper proposes an ap ...