Sentences with phrase «serve unrepresented litigants»
The Access to Justice Program employs a range of resources including Help Centers, volunteer attorney and other volunteer programs to carry out its mission to serve unrepresented litigants in all New York courts.
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I went back into law practice, practicing family law and mediation and about 12 years later, it's funny how good ideas sometimes take, have a long latency period, I was serving on an ABA committee that was studying unrepresented litigants and the findings, this was in Arizona, the findings of the researchers commissioned by the ABA, were that this was an exploding phenomenon of people representing themselves but they didn't do so well.
Whatever the cause and impact of unrepresented litigants on the civil justice system may be, I am of the view that the civil justice system must exist to serve members of the public — whether represented or not.
She serves as a certified mediator through the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, and she has mediated small claims, landlord - tenant, and custody / visitation disputes among unrepresented litigants in court.
As a result, law is less readily understood, and therefore less respected by the people it is supposed to serve, especially so by the unconscionably high percentages of unrepresented litigants in our courts.