Experimentation and Evaluation
January 26, 2017
Exciting innovation is happening all across the world in an effort to meet unaddressed legal needs and the justice chasm. One experiment in the United States is the use of trained and supervised individuals without formal legal training to provide help to people who would otherwise go without legal assistance. New York City’s version, the Court Navigator Program, was created in 2014. “Court Navigators” aid unrepresented litigants in New York City’s Housing and Civil Courts by providing information, assisting litigants in accessing and completing forms, attending settlement negotiations, and accompanying unrepresented litigants into the courtroom. The umbrella program included three