Video of Mary McClymont on Importance of Justice For All Innovations For...
Recently, I blogged about Mary McClymont’s moving and wonderful speech when she got the Champion of Justice Award. Now, here is the video. Some of the key text: . . . there is good news: the crisis...
View ArticleOpportunity To Suggest Improvements to Washington State Access to Justice...
I was the consultant to the Washington State Access to Justice Principles back in the early days of this century. Now a process is underway to update and improve those principles, which were issued by...
View ArticleContribute to a UK Survey of Law Schools and Access and Technology
Richard Moorhead, a longtime UK and international expert on legal aid, innovation, and technology, is gathering information on the role of law schools in spreading these ideas. As Richard puts it: So I...
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Marc Lauritsen Guest Post on Thinking of Legal Help System as an Ecosystem
Editor note: This is a fascinating approach. Legal Knowledge Gardening and Civil Justice Engineering Marc Lauritsen At a recent Justice for All event in Massachusetts I suggested that we consider our...
View ArticleGoogle Home May Help Us Understand the Definition of “Legal Advice,” and...
This is sort of fun. We have been struggling now for over two decades to find the most useful and access-expanding ways of explaining when an interaction is the giving of information, not generally...
View ArticleMaybe Gorsuch Has Some Possibilities
There is certainly evidence in support of the dominant meme of Gorsuch’s extreme conservatism. However, there may be one nugget of good news in the access to justice area. In a VA disability case, in...
View ArticleProfessional-Client Partnering Lessons
Note: This is an access to just version of a recent post on my Patient Partnering Site. A recently published tool intended to be used by medical institutions to encourage their patients to think of...
View ArticleA Broader Branding Perspective for Access to Justice — Service and Change
I think it may be time to think our way through to a new and broader way we think and talk about our movement. These suggestions are based on assumptions that I list below, that are strongly supported...
View ArticleA Revolution on the Federal Judiciary About Treatment of Those Without Lawyers?
An ABA Journal article, could open a whole front in access to justice: [Judge Posner] abruptly announced his retirement from the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, effective the next day....
View ArticleOral History Interview Fragment: Future of Access to Justice
Last week, I was honored to be interviewed by Alan Houseman for the oral history project of the National Equal Justice Library. I will be posting fragments that folks might find useful. This first one...
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