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Informationen zum Autor Samuel Estreicher is the Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he directs the Institute of Judicial Administration and the Center for Labor and Employment Law. He is the Chief Reporter of the Restatement of Employment Law and recipient of the Labor and Employment Research Association's Susan C. Eaton Award for Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner. In addition to the law of the workplace, his areas of expertise include alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure, federal courts, and administrative law. Joy Radice is Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Her research focuses on the civil access to justice gap and the intersection between civil and criminal law affecting people with criminal records. She teaches advocacy clinic, criminal law, and poverty, race, gender, and the law, and directs a new expungement clinic. She also serves on the Knoxville Bar Association's Access to Justice Committee. Klappentext This book describes the access to justice crisis facing low- and middle-income Americans and the current reforms to address it. Zusammenfassung This book provides the most systematic account to date of the access to justice crisis in civil courtrooms for low- and middle-income Americans. The successful reform efforts in technology! pro bono services! bar association resources! and law student representation outlined here will be of interest to lawyers! judges! and policymakers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Overview; Overview; Beyond elite law: editors' introduction; Part I. Current State of Access to Legal Services by Working Americans: 1. Access to civil justice in America: what do we know?; 2. Life in the law-thick world: the legal resource landscape for ordinary Americans; 3. The need for a national civil justice survey of incidence and claiming behavior; 4. When does representation matter?; 5. Bankruptcy's false start: self-representation and the dismissal of chapter 7 cases; 6. Race and representation: racial disparities in legal representation for employment civil rights plaintiffs; 7. The unemployment action center: a student-driven response to legal need; 8. Immigrant representation: meeting an urgent need; 9. Reform at the crossroads: self-representation, civil Gideon, and community mobilizations in immigration cases; Part II. Sources of Legal Services Assistance for Working Americans: 10. The evolution of legal services in the United States: from the war on poverty to civil Gideon and beyond; 11. The effect of contingent fees and statutory fee-shifting: two models of alternative attorney-payment devices; 12. The market for recent law graduates; 13. Clinical legal education and access to justice: conflicts, interests, and evolution; 14. Loan repayment assistance as a means of promoting access to justice; 15. Federally-funded civil legal services for low-income Americans; 16. New York's lawyer referral services; 17. The growth of large law firm pro bono programs; 18. Institutionalizing pro bono; 19. Pro bono as a second career; 20. Employer-provided legal services for employment claims; 21. The Verizon pro bono program; 22. Individualized justice in class and collective actions; Part III. Fashioning a Reform Agenda: 23. Task force to expand access to civil legal services in New York; 24. New York's fifty-hour pro bono requirement for new lawyers; 25. Starting a 'low bono' law practice; 26. Toward a more effective and accessible solo and small firm practice model; 27. Facilitating homemade wills; 28. Court facilitation of self-representation; 29. Limited representation and ethical challenges; 30. Technology can solve much of America's access to justice problem, if we let it; 31. Mediation of employment disputes at the EEOC; 32. AAA consumer arbitration; 33. Saturns for rickshaws - lessons for consumer arbitration and the access to justice; 34. Employment arbitration in the se...
