{"id":448,"date":"2007-01-09T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/01\/09\/a-lesson-from-wisconsin-use-what-you-go"},"modified":"2007-01-10T17:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T21:36:23","slug":"a-lesson-from-wisconsin-use-what-you-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/01\/09\/a-lesson-from-wisconsin-use-what-you-got\/","title":{"rendered":"a lesson from Wisconsin: use what you got"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than waiting around for more studies, grants or appropriations, a team of <em>pro se<\/em> advocates is capitalizing on resources already available in a given district, to develop three pilot projects that will provide &#8220;live help to <em>pro se<\/em> litigants&#8221; in three Wisconsin counties.\u00a0 (The Third Branch, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wicourts.gov\/news\/thirdbranch\/current\/prose.htm\">Three new pro se pilot projects on tap<\/a>,&#8221; Fall 2006; via SelfHelpSupport.org)\u00a0 According to Ann Zimmerman, the statewide <em>pro se<\/em> coordinator:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur intent is to make use of existing resources and creative ideas with track records in other states to help our state courts provide meaningful legal access to self-represented litigants while alleviating the burden of providing such assistance on court personnel.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each idea is practical and doable.\u00a0 As described in the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One pilot project will involve providing services through the public library system, with training provided to the public librarians by staff from the State Law Library and local courts.<\/li>\n<li>Another project will involve using videoconferencing technology to connect <em>pro se<\/em> litigants with volunteers located in another county.<\/li>\n<li>The third project will involve developing a self-help clinic located in a county courthouse. The clinic will be staffed by volunteer lawyers and others, possibly with additional assistance from interested court members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, what are you waiting for?\u00a0 Using the resources you already have, there are many\u00a0ways to provide\u00a0more and better\u00a0<em>pro se<\/em> services\u00a0(see, <em>e.g.<\/em>, <em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsconline.org\/WC\/Publications\/KIS_ProSeBestPracticesSRLN.pdf\">Best Practices<\/a> in Court-Based Programs for the Self-Represented,<\/em>&#8221; from the Self Represented Litigation Network, 2006, 44 pp. pdf). With commitment, drive and ingenuity you can improve your local self-help assistance program and help make justice work more efficiently and fairly.\u00a0 Not\u00a0too expensive and not too shabby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than waiting around for more studies, grants or appropriations, a team of pro se advocates is capitalizing on resources already available in a given district, to develop three pilot projects that will provide &#8220;live help to pro se litigants&#8221; in three Wisconsin counties.\u00a0 (The Third Branch, &#8220;Three new pro se pilot projects on tap,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-viewpoint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}