Information sessions opened this month for court partners interested in hosting cohorts of legal technologists and designers to improve access to justice. The new Judicial Innovation Fellowship program at Georgetown Law is being led by founding director Jason Tashea, an #A2JHero who
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From the Road to the Riverbank: Rethinking the Courtroom and the Law Office
In my many years covering legal services and access-to-justice issues, the perspective shared by LSC President Emeritus James Sandman continues to resonate. He emphasizes again and again how important it is for legal services providers to collaborate with the communities they…
Kayak Court. Because, Why Not?
Justice buses are back on the road in Ohio, making their way across the Buckeye State to: learn about the legal needs of local communities and then, hold local-specific legal clinics to address those needs. This is a much-needed approach.…
Bankers Group IDs Systemic Financial Barriers to Successful Post-Conviction Re-Entry
One of the most exciting things I’ve read recently in the A2J space didn’t come from the courts or legal circles. Instead, it involves research about how the financial industry creates barriers for justice-involved individuals. The collateral consequences following involvement…
Restored Office of Access to Justice Has Long List of Priorities to Tackle
One attorney for every 10,000 low-income Americans. One for ten thousand. That haunting stat spotlights the stark reality that there is much to be done to address this nation’s access to justice gap. President Biden took a small but, fingers…
Speaking of Justice Buses… Utah is rolling them out
When I asked a couple of weeks ago whether roving courts is a good or crazy idea, I leaned toward good idea but wondered how the process would work. We didn’t have to wait long for the answer. Utah has…
When Forms Cause Trauma and Other Form Fails
Sometimes we know things at a fundamental level. But reminders and instruction, especially group instruction, can do a world of good. Case in point, victims can be retraumatized in the retelling of their stories. How someone poses a question can…
Crazy or Crazy Good Idea: Justice Buses?
Revisiting ‘circuit riding’ judges There’s a rich history in this country of the courts coming to far-flung communities to resolve disputes. There are remnants of the practice in the names of our “circuit” courts. Circuit riders dispatched to rural and…
Can’t Come to the Courthouse? The Courthouse Will Come to You
Well maybe not directly to you. But to a neighborhood near you. That’s the case if you’re in St. Louis. That’s because St. Louis has for the first time created an E-Courts location in North County. The move to create…
Bringing Legal Empowerment Directly to Communities
Unlike so many legal conferences, Pro Bono Net’s Decolonizing Justice centered its sessions not on the lawyering but on problems in need of solutions. Before diving into highlights from the mid-November event, it’s worth pausing to consider the name. Decolonizing…