Sentences with phrase «help provide access to justice»

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«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.

Would this help with access to justice and allow more lawyers to provide help in simple matters?

Linkilaw helps all pre Series - B startups with their legal needs and was built out of the admirable desire to better provide access to justice.

Another thing that we do is give our students an education in access to justice — we help them to understand the difficulties in providing access to justice, and how lawyers fit into that picture.

AUSTIN — Business and community leader and advocate Priscilla Guajardo Cortez has been selected to lead Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, which helps low - income individuals access the civil justice system by providing volunteer attorneys who donate legal advice and representation.

This app provides a great example of how a particular technology channel — an app on a smart phone — was used to provide access to justice to a group of people who likely would not have been able to obtain help in any other manner.

This historic program seeks to help bridge the access - to - justice gap by licensing non-lawyers to provide legal advice and assistance in limited areas without the supervision of a lawyer.

Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative technology solutions and expertise in building and mobilizing justice networks, will help convene local partners and provide service design expertise to execute the pilot.

Creating shared definitions for baselines, interventions, and outcomes, then measuring them regularly, may help initiate similar improvements in access to justice, by creating ways to compare interventions and providing rationale for implementing them in other organizations.

Her goal is to reform the entire legal system by helping as many people as possible to understand their general rights, encouraging individuals to be proactive about legal issues, increasing access to justice for low and middle income individuals, and providing education to the community so that re-entering individuals can have seamless and successful returns to the community.

By working full - time for people like those I was trying ineffectually to help in Hampstead I thought I could help to provide them with something approaching that equal access to justice which I naively thought the rule of law was all about.

We are proud to offer this opportunity to recognize volunteer lawyers who help to provide equal access to justice under law.

Some of these issues are commonly seen at Legal Help Centre where the service focus remains on filling gaps in access to justice and supports are provided at no cost to individuals with household incomes of < $ 50,000 annually.

The Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Access to Justice Commission have launched a new website to provide help and information for self - represented litigants.

ARAG helps to close the access to justice gap by providing affordable access to legal help for moderate to modest mean income Americans.

It held that a litigation funding agreement did not violate the rule against champerty and maintenance and indeed helped to provide access to justice to the plaintiff.

Proceeds from the event provide critical funds to expand CLSMF's access to justice programs, ensuring that people who can not afford a lawyer receive the legal help they need.

The Equity & Access Office has partnered with Avalon Sexual Assault Centre to provide education sessions for lawyers that help participants recognize the signs of trauma in their clients; provide suggestions for mitigating re-traumatization from the justice system; and identify the supports and services available for sexual assault survivors in Nova Scotia.

The Florida State Courts System, in conjunction with the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice, offers both a self - help website as well as the Florida Courts HELP App to provide information for people seeking a divorce, adoption, orders of protection, name change, and other family law isshelp website as well as the Florida Courts HELP App to provide information for people seeking a divorce, adoption, orders of protection, name change, and other family law issHELP App to provide information for people seeking a divorce, adoption, orders of protection, name change, and other family law issues.

The Justice Bot provides access to inexpensive tools and legal resources to help people navigate the courts, resolve disputes, translates legalese to common terms effectively ensuring in the process that they obtain jJustice Bot provides access to inexpensive tools and legal resources to help people navigate the courts, resolve disputes, translates legalese to common terms effectively ensuring in the process that they obtain justicejustice.

Justice Education Society: The Justice Education Society provides self - help legal information and access to resources.

By responding to the pleas for help and providing equal access to justice, each of you gives back to and strengthens your community.

Those who wish to apply should have an idea that bridges the access - to - justice gap in the U.S.; utilizes technology to deal with a vital legal need; designs or builds a more effective way of delivering legal services; provides the public with easier access to legal information; reduces the backlog of cases in various courts throughout the country; creates tools that allow lawyers to better represent their clients; or helps pro se litigants represent themselves more effectively.

In her presentation, «Law Students + Technology = Closing the Justice Gap,» Kaufman discussed ways in which law students are moving beyond traditional curriculum paradigms, learning «lawyering skills of the future,» and how those skills can help the next generation of lawyers and legal organizations provide access to justice for underserved groups and indivJustice Gap,» Kaufman discussed ways in which law students are moving beyond traditional curriculum paradigms, learning «lawyering skills of the future,» and how those skills can help the next generation of lawyers and legal organizations provide access to justice for underserved groups and indivjustice for underserved groups and individuals.

She claimed that leaders in alt.legal have conveniently used the access to justice narrative to promote their companies but in this time of new legal needs, the help that could be provided from these companies has not materialized.

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

At Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (a non-profit law firm), we specialize in providing professional legal help to Minnesotans who traditionally lack access to the American justice system and can not afford the services of a private attorney.

The mission of Legal Aid Society of Orange County and Community Legal Services of southeast Los Angeles County is to provide civil legal services to seniors and low - income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self - help services, in - depth legal representation, economic development and community education.

Unbundling legal services or providing clients with assistance à la carte can go a long way in helping to solve the access to justice problem that is so apparent in family... Read more

Unbundling legal services or providing clients with assistance à la carte can go a long way in helping to solve the access to justice problem that is so apparent in family law, says Toronto - area family lawyer