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      	State Justice Communities: Where Do We Go From Here? 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 [ 02/03/05  |  more info ]
      	Equal Justice and the Digital Revolution: Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Low-Income People "Equal Justice and the Digital Revolution: Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Low-Income People," by Julia Gordon. This publication covers the period of 1997 to 2001 when the Project for the Future of Equal Justice, a joint effort of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), engaged in a concerted set of activities aimed at helping legal services programs improve their use of new technologies. The report describes how technology has improved program management and increased access to assistance and information for both clients and advocates. The report concludes with eight detailed recommendations on how the equal justice community can continue to improve the use of technology in its work. [ 10/01/02  |  more info ]
      	Equal Justice and the Digital Revolution: Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Low-Income People This is the Executive Summary of the CLASP publication, Equal Justice and the Digital Revolution, by Julia Gordon. [ 11/01/02  |  more info ]
      	John G. Brooks Consumer Law Fellowship Application PDF of 2006 application for Consumer Law Fellowship [ more info ]
      	Final Report and Recommendations on the Potential Use of Private Lawyers, Who are Paid Redcued Fees by a Legal Services Funder, to Represent Low-Income Persons in Maryland who cannot Obtain Legal Assistance in Civil Cases Report to Maryland State Bar Association, Section on Delivery of Legal Services [ more info ]
      	John G. Brooks Consumer Law Fellowship Application 2006 application form for Brooks Consumer Law Fellowship [ more info ]