The Equal Justice Network is an on-line meeting place, information source,
and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts to provide
civil legal assistance to low-income people. Please explore the site. Use our feedback form or
to give us your comments and ideas. We especially encourage you to check out what's new on the website.
Headlines:
New NLADA web site. On October
1, 2001, NLADA launched its new interactive web
site. Featuring job listings, training calendars, loads of
information on equal justice topics, and NLADA membership information, the
site also has an e-library for materials that you would like to share with the
community. NLADA encourages everyone to explore the new
site.
NLADA Annual Conference, Miami, FL, November 7-10, 2001.
For more information and a downloadable conference brochure, visit the NLADA
website .
Response to the
September 11 acts of terrorism. The staff at the Project for the Future of Equal
Justice wants to extend sympathy to anyone who has lost a family member or
friend in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. For those wishing to help or
those seeking legal assistance, please visit a special ABA
website set up in response to the attacks. You may also wish to visit the National Center for Poverty Law
website, where you can find the HTML text of their May 1995 Disaster
Assistance Guide for Legal Services Practitioners. Pro bono
attorneys can also contact their local legal services office, bar association,
or pro bono
program.
The Project for the Future
of Equal Justice welcomes new staff member Camille Holmes, Senior
Counsel. Ms. Holmes, who will be
located at the Center for Law and Social Policy, will work with the Project to
develop and implement a successful strategy for better meeting the advocacy
needs of low-income communities of color. Before coming to the Project,
Ms. Holmes served as Executive Director of
Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, Inc., a
Washington, DC-based non-profit organization working to transform southern
African legal systems and promote the rule of law. A cum laude graduate of
both Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Ms. Holmes resides in Washington,
DC.
Nonprofits: the Dot Coms,
Dot Orgs, and Other Dots. This article
includes a list of more than one hundred live links to useful websites
compiled by equal justice advocate Don Griesmann, including places to find
information on fundraising, technology and more. Read
the article.
Do
hotline clients understand the advice they are given_ Do they
follow up on it_ Do they ever realize any satisfactory resolution of
their problems_ The latest report in the Hotline Outcomes
Assessment Study makes recommendations for a full-scale study of client
outcomes, as well as some intriguing preliminary findings. For a summary of
the Pre-test Report, click here.
To download the full text of the Pre-test Report in pdf format, click
here.
Human
Services Newsfeed
The Project website now has a newsfeed, updated
daily by HandsNet, that provides current
news from the Human Services community.
