Like public access to justice, public access to legal information can not be ignored.
Not exact matches
Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron, however, said Pai has «never met a mega-merger he didn't
like or a
public safeguard he didn't try
to undermine,» calling him «an inveterate opponent of net neutrality, expanded broadband
access for low - income families, broadband privacy, prison - phone
justice, media diversity and more.»
LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated
public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services
to secure essential needs
like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights
like equal
access to justice.
Finally, more
public, private partnerships with organizations
like LSC and the ABA can assist in closing both the education and
access to justice gaps.
Providing
public lectures, seminars and workshops is an easy and fun way (I was going
to say something more bookish
like «stimulating» here, but it really is fun)
to improve
access to justice that will take a minimum amount of time... [more]
What I would
like to see, and so would the
public, are sincere efforts
to do something about the ruinously high cost of litigation, and an end
to the campaign
to harm the practices of small firm solicitors in the guise of «doing something» about
access to justice.
However, the preamble
to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct does addresses things lawyers should do as
public citizens,
like improve
access to justice, the administration of
justice, and the
public's perception of the legal system.
Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's
public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't
like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court
justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right
to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from
accessing content that has nothing
to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone
to repetition.
At ROSS, we are committed
to partnering with national and state bar associations,
like the New Hampshire Bar Association, state and local - level
access -
to -
justice commissions, the courts, pro bono and
public interest groups, legal services organizations and law schools throughout the country,
to not only enhance the delivery of legal services
to those in need but
to offer support
to the heroic work already being performed by those on the front lines.
Providing
public lectures, seminars and workshops is an easy and fun way (I was going
to say something more bookish
like «stimulating» here, but it really is fun)
to improve
access to justice that will take a minimum amount of time out of your day.
A profession that does not look
like the
public and can not relate
to the full range of its lived experiences is a poor instrument for supporting
access to justice.