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Research & Evidence for Civil Legal Aid

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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.

Upstream Advocacy: Addressing Cancer Survivors’ Employment Problems Through Medical-Legal Partnerships

Barbara Hoffman
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP)
February 10, 2016
This article reviews the cultural changes that affect cancer survivors at work, explains how their legal needs can impact their quality of life, and proposes that medical-legal partnerships are an ideal model to provide legal resources to underserved survivors to help them avoid and address negative employment consequences.

San Mateo County Eviction Report 2016

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
December 31, 2016
This report is an analysis of 3,145 eviction cases handled by the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto over a three-year period. The data provides the first attempt to evaluate eviction activity in San Mateo County on a wide scale.

Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-Entry They Create

Wendy Still, Sandra Susan Smith, Karin D. Martin
Harvard Kennedy School, National Institute of Justice
January 13, 2017
This article serves to discuss Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and raises concerns about how they are implemented. It also considers alternative models for the effective and fair deployment of fines, fees, and restitution in the criminal justice context.

Access to Justice:Ensuring Counsel for Immigrants Facing Deportation in the D.C. Metropolitan Area

Maggie Corser
The Center for Popular Democracy
March 1, 2017
This report analyzes Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review data. It serves to illustrate the difficulties that immigrants face in deportation court proceedings, and calls to action elected officials and service providers to establish a publicly funded universal representation program for immigrants facing detention and deportation.

Taking Stock of the Civil Legal Aid Movement in 2015: the Year the Pieces Came Together to Increase Access to Justice in the United States

David Udell
National Center for Access to Justice
December 31, 2015
This document outlines the civil legal aid reform initiatives that occurred in the United States in 2015, and projects the movement's course in 2016.
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Economic Impact/SROI

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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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