{"id":4503,"date":"2003-07-08T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/07\/08\/more-help-for-the-self-repres"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:51","slug":"more-help-for-the-self-represented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/07\/08\/more-help-for-the-self-represented\/","title":{"rendered":"More Help for the Self-Represented"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning’s JURIST Paperchase<\/A> notes that courts are responding to the increased numbers of pro se litigants by holding educational conferences, such as a recent one held in Tennessee (as covered in the Leaf-Chronicle<\/A> <\/I>on July 7, 2003) and creating informational websites (such as the useful Wisconsin Self-Help Center<\/A><\/STRONG>, which has recources for people considering or in the process of representing themselves).<\/P>
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I’ll have much more to say about this healthy trend — brought on in most states by necessity rather than virtue, and by the courts rather than the bar — when I return from a short vaction later this week. <\/I>Meanwhile, check out an article from Nolo.com on making the courthouse more user-friendly<\/STRONG><\/A>; my own article Supersize Small Claims<\/A><\/STRONG> <\/FONT>, and our <\/FONT>Posting 6\/05\/03<\/A><\/U><\/FONT> <\/B>on efforts in Nevada to help litigants without lawyers.<\/FONT><\/P>
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Thanks<\/STRONG> to Jerry Lawson at net.law.blog<\/A><\/STRONG> for adding us to their select blawgroll.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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