For the last 10 years, the civil legal aid community and its supporters have been heavily engaged in both the process and substance of developing a new national vision of how legal assistance for poor people will be delivered in this country. As always within the equal justice community, this endeavor has spun off a number of catch phrases and acronyms: CISS (Comprehensive, Integrated Statewide Systems), State Planning, �stakeholders�, State Justice Communities, SPAN (State Planning Assistance Network), DSPB (Designated State Planning Body), Access to Justice Commissions and, of course, �reconfiguration�. This document discusses the history and the future of State Justice Communities