Sentences with phrase «legal aid delivery»

In addition, NJP is an integral member of and provides support for the Alliance for Equal Justice, Washington's coordinated statewide civil legal aid delivery system, which brings together a network of volunteer attorney programs, specialty legal aid providers, and supporters working to ensure equal justice for all low - income communities in Washington.

Incorporated into the Report were the findings of John James, Laird Hunter and Tom Sugimoto, who had travelld to Eastern and Central Canada on behalf of SLS to canvass legal aid delivery programs.

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There is also quite a bit in the report about reinventing the delivery of legal services, including limited scope retainers, developing legal expense insurance, and a significant emphasis on the need for more legal aid.

As Moore further notes «Osler also recommended that legal aid be transferred entirely from the Law Society to a publicly appointed board which might be more open than the lawyers to other innovations in delivery of legal services».

The EJC attended and testified during community hearings on the proposed budget and met with Councilmembers (and their staff) to discuss the collaborative delivery system of the King County legal aid providers that works to ensure the needs of low - income people are met in a timely and effective manner and to illustrate the need for restoring and expanding funding for legal aid.

«None of these organizations is responsible for the delivery of legal aid.»

(Source: StatsCan) But since the delivery of legal aid varies across the country, it's difficult to determine if the provinces are using the money in the best way possible.

«It is true that while in government we initiated Sir Ian Magee's review of the delivery and governance of legal aid, which recommended that legal aid should be administered directly by the MoJ instead of an arms - length agency.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

There are a variety of ways in which legal aid administrations can inspire or deploy innovation in the delivery of their own services, for example:

The Justice Committee report envisioned information sharing and best practices for the administration and delivery of legal aid.

She has served on the ABA Commission on IOLTA, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (SCLAID).

On the legal aid cuts it comments: «A consequence (unintended perhaps, but in fact entirely foreseeable) which threatens swiftly to engulf and maybe even overwhelm the judicial system is that family courts at all levels will become thronged with a tsunami of LIPs... The quality of justice will be strained, its administration delayed, its delivery potentially denied.»

Joining a civil legal aid team using impact litigation and advocacy as its primary tools to pursue justice and equal rights through authentic and holistic service delivery to clients, CLSMF's Director of Litigation will support, refine, build, and maintain best in class approaches to support the expertise of our diverse and highly talented legal team, this Florida Attorney in good standing and experienced legal services litigator, will utilize the ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple complex cases in state and federal courts, while also monitoring and troubleshooting dozens of other significant cases handled by program staff.

Because of the cost of legal services, all consumers of legal services, from legal aid organizations to corporate legal departments, are using data and artificial intelligence to improve legal - service delivery.

A targeted cluster of grants is awarded through the Foundation's Special Initiative to strengthen core elements of the national legal aid infrastructure, including innovations for better and more effective service delivery.

1) Strengthen core elements of the national legal aid infrastructure, and promote targeted innovations for better and more effective service delivery;

Since 2001, Illinois Legal Aid Online has successfully used technology in innovative ways to increase access to justice by streamlining the delivery of free and pro bono legal services, and providing easy - to - understand legal information and assistance to the puLegal Aid Online has successfully used technology in innovative ways to increase access to justice by streamlining the delivery of free and pro bono legal services, and providing easy - to - understand legal information and assistance to the pulegal services, and providing easy - to - understand legal information and assistance to the pulegal information and assistance to the public.

Check out this recent blog post from NW Consumer Law Center about their 3 - pronged approach to keeping the State Plan for the Coordinated Delivery of Civil Legal Aid top of mind.

It builds upon the efforts of the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable and the US Department of Justice Office for Access to Justice to demonstrate to federal agencies how civil legal aid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» affLegal Aid Interagency Roundtable and the US Department of Justice Office for Access to Justice to demonstrate to federal agencies how civil legal aid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» affaiAid Interagency Roundtable and the US Department of Justice Office for Access to Justice to demonstrate to federal agencies how civil legal aid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» afflegal aid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» affaiaid can help meet program goals and improve delivery of services in areas such as health care, housing, and veterans» affairs.

With this funding, legal aid organizations have built a network of websites serving both attorneys and clients nationwide, developed easy - to - use online forms, incorporated video technology into service delivery, and enhanced support for pro bono lawyers.»

The Alliance for Equal Justice is a network of Washington State organizations that work together in a collaborative way to coordinate strategy and delivery of civil legal aid to people and communities that experience poverty and injustice.

This project is based on the idea that law students learn to write and deploy advanced technologies used by statewide legal aid websites for the 24/7 delivery of A2J Guided Interviews ®.

The innovative public - private partnerships have transformed the delivery, quality and capacity of many legal aid services.

I hope to foster industry - wide dialogue about improving legal - service delivery, from legal aid and consumer legal services to legal departments and law firms.

Lawyers and other professionals leveraging people, process, data, and technology to improve legal - service delivery for everyone, from legal aid organizations, courts, and the consumer market to law firms and corporate legal departments.

Through the grant program, legal aid organizations from different states bid on tech projects that hold the promise to improve the delivery of legal services.

This provides the opportunity for law firms and legal departments to do well by doing good, partnering with law schools and legal aid organizations to improve legal - service delivery and access to legal services for everyone.

This provides the background for Sir Ian Magee's review of the «delivery» of legal aid presently with ministers.

So far in 2014, he has spoken at a conference organised by the Scottish Legal Aid Board in Edinburgh to discuss digital delivery and, in particular, the Dutch Rechtrwijzer.nl programme.

National Legal Aid Defender Association (NLADA) is America's oldest and largest nonprofit association devoted to excellence in the delivery of legal services to those who can not afford couLegal Aid Defender Association (NLADA) is America's oldest and largest nonprofit association devoted to excellence in the delivery of legal services to those who can not afford coulegal services to those who can not afford counsel.

Nieto's total submersion in the delivery of community - based emergency services to large numbers of lowincome people has qualified her as an invaluable and unparalleled source of both information and inspiration to Legal Aid staff.

They included to «develop and continually improve an integrated legal aid system» and both to «build and maintain relationships with communities to enhance our mutual ability to meet the needs of people with low incomes» and to «develop, implement and evaluate innovative approaches to improve delivery of legal services».

The experiential portion places our fellows at a legal aid organization that is engaged in the development of innovative technology projects to address the crisis in access to justice and enhance service delivery.

The annual Equal Justice Conference, cosponsored with the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, joins all components of the civil legal aid community to address issues related to the delivery of legal services to low - income individuals.

The initiative, which Addario spearheaded as president of the Criminal Lawyers» Association, resulted in the government of Ontario increasing legal aid fees, which greatly improves access to justice and delivery of legal services in the province.

Civil legal aid will become fully electronic in 2010, under a «Delivery Transformation» scheme announced by the Commission in December.

The Equal Justice Conference joins all components of the civil legal aid community to discuss and address issues related to the delivery of legal services to low - income individuals in need of legal assistance.

Our Mission is to facilitate the effective resolution of civil disputes through the delivery of efficient and accessible legal aid and mediation services and to effectively manage and administer the State's criminal legal aid schemes.

The Commonwealth Attorney - General's Department has sought tenders for the delivery of legal aid services to Indigenous Australians throughout Australia.