Hey all - I've been on the planning committee for this conference and it is going to rock! advocates, legal professionals and changemakers! The 2023 Access to Justice Conference is a must-attend event & outstanding networking event!

http://allianceforequaljustice.org/accesstojusticeconference/

#Legal #Conference #Justice #Tacoma #Seattle
#AccessToJustice #ATJConference2023
#JusticeConference #CommunityCentered

When should court forms ask for user pronouns? See https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/docs/question_library/pronouns

Our lab helped the #Massachusetts appeals court add appropriate pronoun questions to several guided interviews at courtformsonline.org, and we made the questions reusable across all of our forms.

#A2J #AccessToJustice #Pride #law

Our paper about https://ratemypdf.com at #ICAIL was awarded the best paper award for the innovative applications track! Validation of wide interest in our concept of improving court forms for #SelfRepresentedLitigants and #AccessToJustice

You can read it here:
https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/docs/complexity/complexity/#download-and-cite-our-paper

#Readability #A2J #accessibility #law

Enjoying the beautiful #Portugal #Minho campus at #ICAIL #ICAIL2023 along with the excellent discussion on #AI and #AccessToJustice

#Singapore claims to be all about the #RuleOfLaw. Tangaraju's case demonstrates this to be a claim with weak foundations. There are long-standing problems with #AccessToJustice in Singapore — beginning with access to legal counsel during investigations. The system is so stacked against the accused, especially if they are poor, with low levels of education, and lack the resources to advocate for themselves. https://www.wethecitizens.net/arent-we-supposed-to-be-all-about-rule-of-law-and-due-process/

From Guardian US blog:
"“It’s a rarity that we’ll see something of this caliber play out in front of a jury,” said RonNell Andersen Jones, a first amendment scholar at the University of Utah."
Which says an enormous amount about the immunity from justice of multi-national corporations, in the US and elsewhere.
#USPolitics #Dominion #AccessToJustice

When sexual assault cases can take as much as five years to get to court, it's good to see the legal system getting its priorities straight and in no way at all overreacting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/14/patrick-thelwell-eggs-king-charles-york
#AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing #RightToProtest #UKPolitics #AccessToJustice

RT @CodeXStanford
Kicking off #FutureLaw @stanfordlaw w/a welcome from Codex's Roland Vogl. He introduced keynote @ralphbaxter, former CEO of @Orrick, who spoke on #AccesstoJustice: rules that restrict who can help w/legal issues & how legal firms can use #techlaw to help. https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/futurelaw2023/

Ralph Baxter is doing a great job kicking off #futurelaw2023 ripping the band-aid off America's #AccessToJustice crisis.

He, he, he...never mind my question 😅 😔 https://www.law360.ca/civillitigation/articles/45412 #AccessToJustice #LawTech

Continuing to build on the RateMyPDF.com look and feel. That was the main feedback we got from some of our expert beta testers, that the table layout was confusing and hard to read.

New stats show where your form is compared to benchmark forms (soon to reflect 47 states, 24,000 forms). Red/yellow/green indicates above/within/below one standard deviation of the mean. The progress bar spans 2 standard deviations from mean

#readability #PlainLanguage #AccessToJustice #Courts #Forms

As a champion for #ProBono work, Chief Justice Richard Wagner was happy to meet @PBSCUBC volunteers working on access to justice initiatives at @AllardLaw.

#PBSC #a2j #AccessToJustice

#Colorado will let non-attorneys get licensed via a paraprofessional program to practice law in certain family relations matters. The new rule aims to improve access to legal representation in domestic law cases.
#Legal #accesstojustice

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/wake-up-call-colorado-okays-non-attorneys-for-some-family-law

Chief Justice Richard Wagner was pleased to speak at an event for Juripop in Montreal.

#ProBono #a2j #AccessToJustice

Now available, the Court’s 5th annual Year in Review. This report provides an informative and engaging account of the work of the Court.

#a2J #AccessToJustice #CdnLaw

https://scc-csc.ca/review-revue/2022/index-eng.html

I'll be doing a live AMA on r/boston at 12 US Eastern time on 3/21, talking about the new features of UpToCode, a free tool to help #Tenants get repairs made in their home!

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11wsii5/were_legal_aid_attorneys_and_a_law_instructor_at/

#Massachusetts #TenantRights #docassemble #AccessToJustice

The fantastic Jen at AustLII has done a major (5 volumes) update to the Auckland University Law Review database - http://www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/AukULawRw/
VUWLR is by far the most used journal on NZLII, but annoyingly, Auckland comes second (come on Otago and Canterbury!)
There are a multitude of fascinating articles in the volumes just updated, including ones by Justices Glazebrook, Williams and Elias, Prof McLean
#nzlaw #AccessToJustice #NZLII

🚨 Open call for proposals for #Docacon 2023!

Sign up now ➡ https://forms.gle/2pdKdP79qUubU7qf6

...to share your great #Docassemble project with the world on April 4th.

Docacon is a free 1/2 day add-on conference to Suffolk LIT Lab's annual #LITCon. Sign up fast to get 2 days of great #LegalTech, #DocumentAssembly and #AccessToJustice content in #Boston, Massachusetts on April 3rd and 4th.

This disturbing story continues to be ignored by the UK media, while the few crumbs of coverage by the US media continue to be heavily whitewashed. In other words, there is a noticeable failure to mention the obvious racial overtones pertaining to the case. This seriously hinders the galvanization of a public demand for justice.

Please share this story; let's demand justice for this man & his family.

https://at.tumblr.com/clarexanthos/this-disturbing-story-continues-to-be-ignored-by/gh81u4hiiqrw

#socialjustice #BLM ##accesstojustice #civilrights #BlackMastodon

My latest #accesstojustice #article is here! "Let's All Be . . . Georgia? Expanding Access to Justice for Incarcerated Litigants by Rewriting the Rules for Writing the Law" published in S.C. L. Rev.