1:50: Gene Nichol, setting a modest tone for his address: “If George Bush taught us anything, it’s the importance of diminished expectations.” 1:52: Nichol won’t be measuring things, “The bigger I get, the less interested I get in measuring things.” Crack at law students, who are bad at measuring things. 1:54: “These are chilly times,” Nichol’s home state of NC is debating whether to establish a state religion. “But the only state religion in North Carolina is college basketball.” 1:55: The …
Panel 3: The Future of Law and Policy
2:20 — Jacqui Bowman of Greater Boston Legal Services kicks off the final panel of the day with a picture of a day at GBLS. 2:24 — Bowman: GBLS makes difficult choices between serving people in dire circumstances, gives example of choosing to represent one battered woman seeking a divorce but not another because the latter’s husband respected the restraining order on him. 2:27 — Bowman: Legal Services has a “twin mission” of promoting access to justice and helping eradicate poverty, but …
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HLPROnline Symposium, Panel II: “Today’s Pro Bono Efforts – What’s Working, What Isn’t” Live Blog
12:15- Panel 2 on Today’s Pro Bono Efforts. Panelists are Richard Zorza, Jeanne Charn, Scott Cummings, David Grossman, and Katherine Hudgins. 12:15 – Introductory remarks by Alex Smith. Importance of pro bono for access to justice forces us to evaluate how much good existing pro bono efforts are doing and how it can be improved. The second panel today will discuss these questions. 12:17 – Zorza Introduction: today’s discussion evidence of how much access to justice discussion has changed, …
Time for the ERA?
By Craig Auster One of the ways that the Obama administration has tried to engage the public is the “We the People” online petition tool. On January 10th a petition was launched asking the White House to “fully engage in efforts to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).” The petition needed to get 25,000 signatures in a month in order to get an official response—this one got 27,691. What struck me is that in that same month period, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced he would …
HLPROnline Symposium, (Welcoming Remarks and Panel I) Live Blog
10:30 Welcoming Remarks by Dean Minow 10:33 Alex Smith- symposium coordinator thanking everyone who put work into today. 10:35- room is almost full, so great to see so many people showing support! 10:37- Smith says a great tragedy in access to justice is how few people are aware/talking about this crisis. …
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Time for the ERA?
One of the ways that the Obama administration has tried to engage the public is the “We the People” online petition tool. On January 10th a petition was launched asking the White House to “fully engage in efforts to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).” The petition needed to get 25,000 signatures in a month in order to get an official response—this one got 27,691. What struck me is that in that same month period, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced he would lift the ban on …