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Research & Evidence for Civil Legal Aid

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This site allows you to access civil legal aid research in one location. The Search & Filter page is a powerful way to focus on exactly what you want. Please feel free to give us feedback. We welcome suggestions for additional research to include.

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Elsewhere on the Web

The National Center for Access to Justice maintains the excellent Justice Index, which offers in-depth state-by-state comparisons and advanced interactive maps.
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Scientific Polling: How to Talk About Legal Aid

Civil legal aid 9-second soundbite.
In November 2013, Pollster Celinda Lake presented findings and recommendations for building awareness of the role of civil legal aid. Above is the 9-second soundbite. Read the powerpoint. Watch the video.

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Civil Legal Aid in the United States: An Update for 2017

Alan W. Houseman
Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library
March 1, 2018
This report by Alan W. Houseman outlines the history of civil legal aid in the United States and highlights major developments in the field, including increases in funding and improvements in access to services between July 2015 and December 2017.

The Opioid Crisis In America & the Role Medical-Legal Partnership Can Play In Recovery

Jay Chaudhary, Kate Marple, Jillian Bajema
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP)
March 1, 2018
This issue brief by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership supports the need for legal services in addressing the non-medical issues for legal clients with substance use disorders(SUD)on their road to recovery. Citing case studies of existing recovery-based MLPs in Ohio, Indiana,and Nevada, this paper provides a well-supported argument for the impact of lawyers as significant actors in combating the ongoing opioid crisis.

The Value of Research

“In the long run, legal aid programs’ investment in randomized study will not only improve services and help direct scarce resources, but will also build public support.

The willingness of the legal aid movement to question itself and change in response will demonstrate to the wider world that our work is, in the end, focused on doing the best we can to help very poor people, in often-desperate circumstances, to improve their lives.”

--Steven Eppler-Epstein, Executive Director of Connecticut Legal Services
Harvard Law Review, 2013

Economic Impact/SROI

Click here to see research on the economic benefits of civiil legal aid and its social return on investment (SROI).

Measuring Justice: Difficult Questions

"The research imperative of refining ways to measure justice is important and necessary. Our work as lawyers improves the more we know about our effectiveness and the more our choices are evidence based. Nevertheless, quantifying the work of a lawyer is not easy.
  • "How do we ensure that any measure of justice captures outcomes for both trial-based advocacy and non-trial-based advocacy on behalf of clients, including negotiated outcomes?
  • "How do we quantify the role lawyers play in listening to our clients, explaining the systems in which they operate, and supporting them through often very difficult times in their lives?
  • "How do we ensure that any measure of justice includes a client’s sense of the process as well as the outcome?
  • "How do we make sure that what we measure does not suggest the limits of what is possible or desired?"
--Jane H. Aiken & Stephen Wizner

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