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Latest News in Access to Justice

• July 26, 2024

  Digital Guides And Plain Language Key To Court Accessibility

  Court forms should be designed with self-represented litigants in mind, researchers at the University of Ottawa said in a recent report, which implores judicial stakeholders to consider introducing guided pathways on digital forms and to massage legal jargon into easily understood, plain-language instructions.

• July 25, 2024

  Public Counsel Promotes Longtime Civil Rights Atty To CEO

  Public Counsel's newly named President and CEO Kathryn Eidmann went to law school focused on becoming a professor, wanting eventually to write academic works on access to justice and other legal issues. That all changed during her first clinic in law school, she told Law360 Pulse in an interview.

• July 24, 2024

  Most Think Right To Atty Includes Civil Suits, LSC Poll Finds

  A majority of Americans surveyed this month said they didn't seek legal representation when faced with life-changing civil legal issues over the past three years, and more than half said they believe if they can't afford an attorney, they're entitled to free representation in civil legal matters.

• July 22, 2024

  Haynes Boone Hires Dallas-Based Pro Bono Head

  Haynes and Boone LLP has tapped an attorney who spent the last six years leading the legal department of a women's shelter nonprofit as the new head of the firm's pro bono efforts.

• July 17, 2024

  Ohio Justices Enforce $30M Police Brutality Judgment

  The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the city of East Cleveland to pay upwards of $30 million to satisfy a judgment in favor of a man who won a jury verdict finding that police officers wrongfully detained him and caused serious injuries in the process.

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