In 2005, the Alameda Court created the  Day-Of-Court Assistance Project. Using volunteers from the local bar and local law schools, and working in conjunction with the Family Law Facilitator’s office, the goal of the project was to have each and every pro ...

This Report was prepared by John Greacen for the Judicial Council of California, center for Families, Children and the Courts. Preliminary research conducted in courts in the San Joaquin Valley in California shows that self help services provided to self- ...

What are we learning about self-represented litigants who e-file? Who are they? Where are they? What cases do they file? How do the tools work for them? Using identical survey instruments, the Superior Court in Orange County and the Texas Office of Court ...

Meet Gina, the online assistant that is helping tens of thousands of people at the Los Angeles Superior Court handle their traffic citations online. When visiting the traffic section of the court's website, litigants can interact with Gina to pay a t ...

Since 2007, Bet Tzedek Legal Services  has been running a self-help conservatorship clinic in partnership with the Los Angeles Superior Court. Originally designed to serve 150 self-represented litigants per year, the program served more than 1,400 self-re ...

The Resource Guide provides options for courts and other entities interested in providing services to self-represented litigants using means that are not face-to-face, instead of, or in addition to, in-person alternatives such as walk-in services, worksho ...