Current Solutions Petitioners, most of whom are not lawyers, have to: (1) identify “interested parties,” many of whom are not obvious candidates; (2) determine the proper method of service; (3) effectuate service; and (4) return proof of service to the Probate and Family Court. Completing the process exactly as described is equally important. Service isn’t […]
Current Solutions Courts, legal services providers, and state and local Bars have responded to the flood of people without lawyers in numerous ways, including: amending ethical rules to legitimate already-existing forms of lawyer representation self-help centers uniform court forms self-help materials technology and non-lawyer representation. In 2015, the Conferences of Chief Judges and State Court Administrators
The Study: Part I The Debt Collection Default Study measures what kinds of mailings from legal services providers to defendants are effective in reducing default rates in debt collection cases. To our knowledge, our study is the first of its kind to evaluate an intervention intended to reduce default rates in civil cases using a randomized control
