Tag Archives: Blog
Dear Julie: Diary of a Self-Represented Litigant
This week’s guest blogger is an anonymous SRL who wrote me the following message this last week. Their story is typical of the messages...
Stereotypes Hold Us Back: Challenging Our Assumptions about A2J with Real Data
A deeply shocking blog written by a former lawyer on the subject of “Licensed Legal Technicians” (a pilot program in some US states) cr...
Paying for Legal Services with Time rather than Value: the Billable Hour & its Consequences for Clients
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Bank of Nova Scotia v. Diemer (2014 ONCA 851) represents a watershed in judicial forthri...
New Year Wishes: 5 Excuses for Not Involving the Public in A2J Reform to Leave Behind in 2014
I have a New Year wish.
Please can we stop repeating these hackneyed excuses for not including the public – “not now, not yet, not t...
Our Pitch to Santa (with the help of Aretha Franklin): Asking the Public to Support Legal Aid in Canada
Over the last few weeks, we have been asking what you might ask Santa – eloquently described in one response as “…the sublime intangibl...