ACAJ Workgroups


Access to Justice

Workgroups will be focusing on initiatives from Chief Justice Scott Bale’s Advancing Justice Together Strategic Agenda, including improving services for self-represented litigants (SRLs), encouraging pro bono services, and promoting the tax credit information campaign. The following workgroups were created:

Specifically, the workgroups will discuss and make recommendations to:

  • Identify ways to promote participation by lawyers in access to justice initiatives and recognize them for their professional and financial contributions.
  • Identify ways to improve funding for the judicial branch and the courts’ ongoing ability to provide access to court services.
  • Expand access to web-based forms, e-filing, and information describing legal terms and court procedures.
  • Ensure court forms and information, whether in electronic or paper form, are easily understandable.
  • Provide front-end triage and referral services to assist self-represented litigants in identifying and obtaining appropriate services.
  • Explore programs to recruit and train college students and other volunteers to work in legal self-help centers to assist with legal workshops, help complete legal forms, and provide information and referrals
  • Explore the use of technology-based access to justice solutions being developed in other courts.
  • Collaborate with legal services agencies and the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education to develop strategies to expand legal and other self-help services for modest-to low-income litigants.