Add to ORKGIn recent years, access to justice and civil right to counsel advocates have taken a strong interest in pilot programs to test the cost and effectiveness of increasing the availability of counsel to low-income civil litigants. An eighteen-month privately-funded housing counsel pilot in two Boston courts has recently concluded and a new housing pilot is about to begin in three different Massachusetts courts. Pilots are also ongoing or in late stages of development in several other states. The most ambitious pilot program to date is the multi-year, multi-county pilot project underway in California pursuant to the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act of 2009.1 A national civil right to counsel pilot project conference was held in Chicago in Novem...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government must provide a criminal def...
In Goldberg v. Kelly, the Supreme Court held that welfare recipients have a right under the Due Proc...
Regardless of one\u27s feelings about the desirability of the states providing counsel for a crimina...
The right to an attorney in a criminal proceeding was firmly established by the U.S. Supreme Court i...
The right to free counsel in civil cases is widely accepted around the world but not in the United S...
Around the country, state and local bar associations, access to justice commissions, and local advoc...
This article will discuss the scope of services and rationale for the right to a free lawyer in civi...
While the United States Supreme Court\u27s decision in Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed the right to ...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court unanimously held that indigent state felony defendants ar...
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon, in this Article I argue that we can and should be mor...
This Article offers a snapshot of the initial two-month development process of a new law firm incuba...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, twenty-three state attorneys general, led by Walter F. Mondale and Edward M...
The right to counsel in civil cases-metaphorically known as Civil Gideon-has gained traction in segm...
There is general agreement that the “promise” of Gideon has been systematically denied to large numb...
Civil Gideon advocates have at each turn faced the scourge of Lassiter v. Department of Social Servi...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government must provide a criminal def...
In Goldberg v. Kelly, the Supreme Court held that welfare recipients have a right under the Due Proc...
Regardless of one\u27s feelings about the desirability of the states providing counsel for a crimina...
The right to an attorney in a criminal proceeding was firmly established by the U.S. Supreme Court i...
The right to free counsel in civil cases is widely accepted around the world but not in the United S...
Around the country, state and local bar associations, access to justice commissions, and local advoc...
This article will discuss the scope of services and rationale for the right to a free lawyer in civi...
While the United States Supreme Court\u27s decision in Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed the right to ...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court unanimously held that indigent state felony defendants ar...
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon, in this Article I argue that we can and should be mor...
This Article offers a snapshot of the initial two-month development process of a new law firm incuba...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, twenty-three state attorneys general, led by Walter F. Mondale and Edward M...
The right to counsel in civil cases-metaphorically known as Civil Gideon-has gained traction in segm...
There is general agreement that the “promise” of Gideon has been systematically denied to large numb...
Civil Gideon advocates have at each turn faced the scourge of Lassiter v. Department of Social Servi...
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government must provide a criminal def...
In Goldberg v. Kelly, the Supreme Court held that welfare recipients have a right under the Due Proc...
Regardless of one\u27s feelings about the desirability of the states providing counsel for a crimina...