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 ...

The Judicial Council of California, with support from the Public Welfare Foundation, produced a nine minute video about the San Francisco's Access Center that explains what a self-help center is and how it provides triage and self-help services to se ...

  With the most recent statistics reporting that 1 in 3 women experience domestic violence, hundreds of thousands of protection orders are filed in New York State Courts each year. The Advocate Family Offense Petition Program offers providers across the s ...

From the Introduction: Probably most Utah communities are not that different from “Middle City, USA,” a mid-size, mid-West community that was the location of the 2014 Community Needs and Services Study by the American Bar Association. 1) In a random sampl ...