{"id":236,"date":"2006-10-28T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/28\/self-help-stats-from-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:12:43","slug":"self-help-stats-from-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/28\/self-help-stats-from-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"self-help stats from Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvsupremecourt.us\/\">Nevada Supreme Court<\/a> Chief Justice Robert Rose included information about the Clark County (Las Vegas) Self-Help Center in remarks to the local bar association on October 18, 2006.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inbusinesslasvegas.com\/2006\/10\/27\/law.html\"><em>In Business Las Vegas<\/em><\/a> (Oct. 27, 2006), described the Chief Justice&#8217;s remarks:\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&#8220;The courts have also vastly expanded their services for people representing themselves in court matters. The Las Vegas self-help center, he said, has an average of 10,400 visitors each month, including 6,200 walk-ins. And about 281,000 legal forms are downloaded from the self-help center&#8217;s Web site each month as well, he said. Clark County Legal Services is swamped, he said, serving about 1,000 clients a month. And Justice Nancy Becker is creating a pro-se (self-representation) training manual for court staff so they can better help people. <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&#8220;&#8216;Needless to say the pro se situation creates additional demands on the court system and we&#8217;re trying to meet it because it&#8217;s not going to go away,&#8221; Rose said. &#8220;If people have contact with the court, a lot of them are going to be pro se and how we deal with them and how we can help them means a lot&#8217;.&#8221;<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"57\" alt=\"ClarkCountyNVHelp\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/10\/ClarkCountyHelp.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/>\u00a0Click for the Clark County Family Court <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.clark.nv.us\/district_court\/self_help_center.htm\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Self-Help Center website<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great to see particpation by both the Clark County Bar Association and students from UNLV Boyd School of Law.\u00a0 Boyd law students, as part of a 60-hour community service requirement, provide self-help <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.clark.nv.us\/district_court\/Self_Help_Center_PP4_files\/frame.htm\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">classes<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> for the Center on topics such as family law, bankruptcy, guardianship, small claims issues, custody\/paternity.\u00a0 The Self-Help Center teaches a class on preparing for a hearing.\u00a0 The Center also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.clark.nv.us\/district_court\/Self_Help_Center_PP4_files\/frame.htm\">list of attorneys<\/a> willing to take family court cases on an <em>unbundled<\/em> basis [I wish the list were identified as such on the Center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.clark.nv.us\/district_court\/self_help_glance.htm\">list<\/a> of services, and not simply as attorneys willing to take family law cases.] \u00a0As it should be, &#8220;There is no income or asset qualification for access to the services of the Family Law Self-Help Center.&#8221;\u00a0 The Nevada Supreme Court Council for <em>Pro Se<\/em> Assistance has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/lawlibrary.nvsupremecourt.us\/selfHelp\/resourcesSelf.php\">a list <\/a>of <em>pro se<\/em> resources across the state. <\/font><\/div>\n<p \/><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Rose included information about the Clark County (Las Vegas) Self-Help Center in remarks to the local bar association on October 18, 2006.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how an article from In Business Las Vegas (Oct. 27, 2006), described the Chief Justice&#8217;s remarks:\u00a0 &#8220;The courts have also vastly expanded their services for people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}