Remote Services for Self-Represented Litigants (April 27) Presented by:  John Greacen (of Greacen Associates, LLC), Maria Livingston (from the Orange County, California Superior Court) and Sarah Frush (from Maryland Legal Aid)   A preview of the soon to b ...

  With a new online eligibility tool (neotalogic.com) built in Neota Logic, Virginia Legal Aid Society (VLAS), which typically handles 14,000 calls a year on its hotline, successfully diverted 1,800 ineligible intakes in the first eight months of the tool ...

This legal help hotline "handled roughly 50,000 free consultations for 28,000 clients last year." http://bit.ly/1SgkIV4  A report from February access to justice conference in Canada: http://storify.com/IDEALawDal  Report shows how much it costs ...

News this week: Thoughts For Federal Agencies and A2J Commissions Building on the White House LAIR Meeting via Richard Zorza: https://twitter.com/rzorza/status/716795921170706432 New Plain Language toolkit launches in Ontario: https://twitter.com/winkleri ...

SRLN's Live Tweets and content sharing from the Pre-Conference and general EJC this week can be found here:  https://twitter.com/SRLN15 Showcase of Access to Justice Drupal projects and free webinar:  http://drupal.openadvocate.org/node/5 Opportuniti ...

Council of Economic Advisors Report on Costs and Benefits of Incarceration Versus Other Approaches via Richard Zorza: https://accesstojustice.net/2016/04/29/council-of-economic-advisors-repo... (accesstojustice.net) A report on the growth and use of of on ...

Lisa Foster’s ATJ Commissions Meeting Speech Focuses on Big Changes (accesstojustice.net) Law students in Canada develop app for court admins to help unclog the courts and improve access to justice: bit.ly/TRvr-AppCrt (cbc.ca) Consortium on Racial/Ethnic ...

Can legal aid hotlines help people overcome the obstacles to justice (law.com)? A look at the way courts are (or aren't) adjusting to legal tech changes in the UK via The Economist (economist.com) On the future of legal services for the poor (longrea ...

Why now may be a good time for those working in access to justice to approach funders: https://accesstojustice.net/2016/04/09/maybe-a-good-time-to-approach-phi... EU's Justice Scoreboard offers comparison of A2J across Europe: tps://lnkd.in/eiVHiQr P ...

What are we learning about self-represented litigants who e-file? Who are they? Where are they? What cases do they file? How do the tools work for them? Using identical survey instruments, the Superior Court in Orange County and the Texas Office of Court ...