The American legal system is expensive, making justice inaccessible to many. Mediation offers a more affordable and efficient alternative to traditional adversarial legal proceedings. In the late ...
Law Schools Work to Tackle Access to Justice “Our whole system of structuring representation and counsel and the provision of legal services in this country leaves out a massive number of people,” ...
When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...
Passing the parole, ombudsman and clean slate bills and creating an independent statewide public defense system can help ...
"Approximately 70% of low-income households face at least one civil legal problem annually, 40% of them face more than five significant civil legal problems annually, and anywhere from 50-90% of those ...
In courtrooms across the world, including the United States, child victims of sexual violence are expected to play by rules that were never made for them. They are asked to recall precise dates, ...
Legal AI has a credibility problem.Courts, lawyers, and the public are increasingly relying on AI tools to answer legal ...