{"id":331,"date":"2006-11-27T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/27\/state-of-pro-se-in-montana\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T18:36:30","slug":"state-of-pro-se-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/27\/state-of-pro-se-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"State of pro se in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all, my name is Orijit and this is my first post on the site. I am currently working as an Americorps VISTA volunteer with Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) on self-help law in Montana. As the only provider of civil legal services statewide, MLSA must turn down many clients that are income-eligible for services because of resources and other constraints. Therefore, MLSA has made an effort to promote self-help law practices such as <em>pro se<\/em> clinics, self-help workstations and a comprehensive <a title=\"MontanaLawHelp\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montanalawhelp.org\">website<\/a> to provide assistance to those who cannot be directly represented.<\/p>\n<p>On page 11 of this month&#8217;s <a title=\"State Bar of Montana\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montanabar.org\/montanalawyer\/november2006.pdf\">&#8216;Montana Lawyer&#8217;<\/a>, you will find an article I authored which summarizes the state of <em>pro se<\/em> activities in Montana, along with a rough outline of what we hope to provide in the future. Please check back for updates on new resources and legislative activity that I hope to provide as soon as they are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all, my name is Orijit and this is my first post on the site. I am currently working as an Americorps VISTA volunteer with Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) on self-help law in Montana. As the only provider of civil legal services statewide, MLSA must turn down many clients that are income-eligible for services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}