Pilots

1. Clare Pastore, Gideon is My Co-Pilot: The Promise of Civil Right to Counsel Pilot Programs, 17 U.D.C. L.R. 75 (Spring 2014), available at http://www.udclawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/udc319412v17n1_text.pdf#page=81.

2. California Sargent Shriver Pilots

   • Codification of pilots: Cal. Gov. Code § 68651 (previously AB 590).  

   • Selected pilot sites listed at http://www.courts.ca.gov/15703.htm.  

   • First report to the Judicial Council (July 2017) is available at https://jcc.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=5319197&GUID=A7E82A2C-C90F-41BF-AA2B-1EC3E5825C4C.  

   • Fact sheet about the pilots is available at http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/AB-590.pdf.

   • Brian Brophy, Civil Right to Counsel Through the States Using California's Efficiency Project As A Model Towards a Civil Gideon, 8 Hastings Race & Poverty L. J. 39 (Winter 2011).

   • Judicial Council of California, Report to the Judicial Council: Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act: Selection of Pilot Projects (April 29, 2011), available at http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/20110429itemp-revt.pdf. The minutes of the meeting approving the selections in the Report are at http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/20110429jcminutes.pdf.

   • Sarah Conn Martin, Appointed Counsel in Civil Cases: How California's Pilot Project Compares to Access to Counsel In Other Developed Countries, 37 J. Legal Prof. 281 (Spring 2013).

   • Recent Legislation, Access To Justice — Civil Right To Counsel — California Establishes Pilot Programs To Expand Access To Counsel For Low-Income Parties, 123 Harvard L.R. 1532 (2010), available at http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/april123_recent_legislation.pdf.

   • Clare Pastore, California's Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act Tests Impact of More Assistance for Low-Income Litigants, 47 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol'y 97 (July-Aug. 2013), available with free subsciption at http://povertylaw.org/system/files/chr_article_pdf/chr_2013_july_august_pastore.pdf.

3. Massachusetts Eviction Pilots

   • Boston Bar Association Task Force on Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel, Gideon's New Trumpet: Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel in Massachusetts (2008), available at http://www.bostonbar.org/prs/reports/GideonsNewTrumpet.pdf. 

   • Boston Bar Association Task Force on Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel, The Importance of Representation in Eviction Cases and Homelessness Prevention (March 2012), available at http://www.bostonbar.org/docs/default-document-library/bba-crtc-final-3-1-12.pdf.

   • Steve Eppler-Epstein, The Greiner Studies: Randomized Investigation of Legal Aid Outcomes, 46 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol'y 43 (May-June 2012).

   • D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, & Jonathan Hennessy, How Effective Are Limited Legal Assistance Programs? A Randomized Experiment in a Massachusetts Housing Court (Sept 1, 2012) (draft), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1880078.

   • D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, & Jonathan Hennessy, The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 901 (Feb. 2013), available at http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol126_%20greiner_wolos_pattanayak_hennessy.pdf.

   • John Pollock, Recent Studies Compare Full Representation to Limited Assistance in Eviction Cases, 42 National Housing Law Bulletin 72 (March 2012).

4. San Francisco Eviction Pilot

   • John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest, Stanford Law School, San Francisco Right to Civil Counsel Pilot Program Documentation Report (May 2014), available at http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=49157.