Illinois Bar Journal

Subject Index Access to Justice

Ready for a Helping Hand?

By Amelia Buragas
November
2025
LawPulse
, Page 12
The Illinois Supreme Court supports development of program allowing nonlawyers to provide limited legal assistance.

Language interpretation services must be provided for certain individuals during administrative proceedings

June
2025
Illinois Law Update
, Page 14
The Illinois General Assembly amended the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Self-represented litigants, witnesses, and indigent litigants may request language interpretation services during a hearing.

It Pays To Help

By Amelia Buragas
May
2025
LawPulse
, Page 12
The Illinois Supreme Court aims to increase access to justice and incentivize lawyers to assist people with unmet legal needs.

Granting Access

By Amelia Buragas
March
2025
LawPulse
, Page 18
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice gives grants to 31 Illinois county courthouses to better serve people with disabilities.

Meet Lex

By Pete Sherman
March
2025
LawPulse
, Page 18
The Illinois court system’s help website introduces a chatbot to provide visitors with quick answers to basic questions.

License To Hold Hearings Remotely

By Amelia Buragas
October
2024
LawPulse
, Page 12
The ISBA and the Illinois Secretary of State team up to promote the agency’s new option for remote administrative hearings.

Sowing Seeds

By Amelia Buragas
September
2024
LawPulse
, Page 12
Nearly five years after the ISBA launched the Rural Practice Fellowship Program, the association assesses its progress.

Remote Opportunities

By Ed Finkel
May
2024
Cover Story
, Page 20
Can remote court and legal services help increase access to justice?

A Key Piece to the Puzzle

By Amelia Buragas
January
2024
LawPulse
, Page 10
As the Illinois Supreme Court eyes access to justice, it establishes a committee to ponder the practicalities of where lawyers fit in.

The Limitless Uses of Limited Scope

By Ed Finkel
January
2024
Cover Story
, Page 18
An overview of a two-part ISBA webinar that provides practitioners with the ins-and-outs of limited scope representation.

It’s All About Access—and Innovation

By Rory T. Weiler
April
2023
Column
, Page 10
The ISBA and access-to-justice barriers in Illinois’ rural and urban areas.

Small Town Law

By Ed Finkel
February
2021
Cover Story
, Page 18
ISBA’s Rural Practice Initiative encourages law students and recent graduates to settle down in a small town.
1 comment (Most recent February 3, 2021)

Grants help circuit courts serve pro se litigants

By Matthew Hector
May
2018
LawPulse
, Page 12
The Illinois Supreme Court has awarded cash grants to 13 judicial circuits to help them better serve the large and growing number of self-represented litigants.
1 comment (Most recent April 27, 2018)

Multilingual justice comes to Cook County

By Adam W. Lasker
November
2013
LawPulse
, Page 554
The Illinois Supreme Court's Access to Justice Commission launches an ambitious program, led by two Cook County judges, to reduce language barriers to court access.

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