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Small Claims Reform: A Means of Expanding Access To The American Civil Justice System
No full textEvery American should enjoy full access to the protections offered by the U.S. civil justice system. Unfortunately, this basic right is often denied to millions by civil court procedures and practices that are costly, Byzantine and hostile to ordinary citizens who need legal help. In fact, according to the American Bar Association, tens of millions of American households that need legal help are denied access to the civil justice system every year.\u27 One key method of improving citizen access to the civil justice system is through small claims courts. These courts - which use simplified procedures, require plain English, provide consumer aids and often prohibit lawyers - have tremendous promise as a means of empowering ordinary people to take charge of their own routine legal needs
DC Consortium Of Legal Service Providers: Legal Services 2000 Symposium. April 30, 1999. Remarks Of Peter Edelman, Zona Hostetler, and Ada Shen-Jaffe
No full textLegal Services Attorneys As Partners In Community Economic Development: Creating Wealth For Poor Communities Through Cooperative Economics
No full textTechnology Assisted Advocacy
No full textThis paper creates a technology assisted advocacy scenario. It follows the events in the client access scenario paper by Mike Genz, taking the client Maria into a case requiring the full services of an advocate. Each step in the scenario is followed by a discussion that explores some of the work that would need to be done to make this scenario a reality
Technology And Client Community Access To Legal Services - Suggestive Scenarios On Community Legal Education, Intake And Referral And Pro Se
No full textThe papers prepared for the Conference provide a broad perspective on emerging technologies and the potential they offer Legal Services. This paper, building on those perspectives, first offers a real world scenario showing how these technologies might be deployed to maximize client and community access to Legal Services resources. For each scenario, the paper then lays out what needs to be in place - technologically, managerially and institutionally, for the scenario to be made real
The Technologically Enabled Legal Services Delivery System From The Perspective Of Senior Management
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