{"id":82114,"date":"2022-07-27T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82114"},"modified":"2022-07-27T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:57:36","slug":"americas-lawyerless-courts-carpenter-shanahan-steinberg-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/07\/27\/americas-lawyerless-courts-carpenter-shanahan-steinberg-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Lawyerless Courts [Carpenter, Shanahan, Steinberg, &#038; Mark]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/law_practice\/publications\/law_practice_magazine\/2022\/july-august\/americas-lawyerless-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>America\u2019s Lawyerless Courts<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from americanbar.org by Anna E. Carpenter, Colleen F. Shanahan, Jessica K. Steinberg, and Alyx Mark<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our research reveals an unavoidable truth: The civil justice system is broken in state civil courts. There is a massive disconnect between what courts were designed to do\u2014solve legal disputes through lawyer-driven, adversarial litigation\u2014and what these courts are asked to do today\u2014help people without lawyers navigate complex social, economic and interpersonal challenges, most of which are deeply tied to structural inequality. As one judge we observed told a courtroom full of litigants, \u201cThis courtroom is like the emergency room.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Five key findings from our work highlight the scope and nature of the crisis: State civil courts are primarily lawyerless, traditional adversary litigation has largely disappeared, the judicial role is not working, the law is not developing, and people\u2019s court experiences amplify inequality and human suffering.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Lawyerless Courts &#8212; from americanbar.org by Anna E. Carpenter, Colleen F. Shanahan, Jessica K. Steinberg, and Alyx Mark Excerpt: Our research reveals an unavoidable truth: The civil justice system is broken in state civil courts. There is a massive disconnect between what courts were designed to do\u2014solve legal disputes through lawyer-driven, adversarial litigation\u2014and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[832,829,837,833,830,285,480,293,834,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-justice","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-sociology","category-telelegal","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82116,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82114\/revisions\/82116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}