This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Legal Services Corp., the United States’ largest funder of civil legal aid. With a current congressional appropriation of $560 million, the LSC funds 131 ...

A surge in evictions, domestic violence and child poverty last year has heightened the demand for legal services to help low- and middle-income families, and worsened a shortage of attorneys to assist ...

The constitutional right to a fair trial, grounded in the Sixth Amendment, is the cornerstone of our justice system. It guarantees essential protections in criminal matters that, in theory, ensure ...

Access to justice (A2J) has long been a nationwide crisis in the U.S. The gap between those who need legal services and those who can afford them is vast, and this disparity has only widened in recent ...

As they await the potential impacts of a new presidential administration and the GOP-controlled Congress, access to justice leaders across the country say they're headed into 2025 with an eye on ...

As a personal injury lawyer, I regularly meet injured Albertans when accidents have disrupted their lives, work, and families ...

Many predictions have been made about the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession. From the demise of the billable hour to robots replacing lawyers, projections have run the gamut.

Access to justice is now seeing a “Humpty Dumpty” moment, as Harvard Law School Professor David Wilkins characterized it last week: With the arrival of new technologies, the system has cracked into ...

Access to Justice: Law, Policy, and Legal Ethics (6018): The American civil justice system sits at a crossroads. In three-quarters of the 15 million civil cases filed in state courts each year, at ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) – The Utah State Bar held the 8th Annual Access to Justice Summit to strengthen the network of free and low-cost legal resources available to Utahns. The theme of this year ...