Amount DWI case processing sped up after Guam’s courts hired a full-time Chuukese interpreter: From 2 years to 90 days

According to the Pacific Daily News, driving while intoxicated cases used to take between 2 and 2 ½ years for Guam’s courts to process. After the court hired Merly Karsom as a full time Chuukese interpreter, the average time from beginning to end of a driving while intoxicated (DWI) case fell to 90 days. A growing proportion of people living on Guam speak Chuukese, which is the official language of the islands of Chuuk in Micronesia. Court Lacks Interpreters: Out-of-Date System Causes Cases to Drag, Pacific Daily News (Nov. 26, 2012)

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The Justice Index Attorney Count Project 2019 – This Summer NCAJ Seeks Your Support to Count all Civil Legal Aid Organizations & Attorneys
June 27, 2019
The Count. This summer, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) at Fordham Law School is carrying out a research initiative to update the “Attorney Count” in the Justice Index, justiceindex.org. Last updated in 2016, the Count is a… Read more>>
New Writings Define Leading Edge of Civil Justice Reform Movement – The A2J Summit Collection is Live
April 9, 2019
In more than a dozen new writings gathered in The A2J Summit Collection, activists from across the country describe the leading edge and future promise of the civil justice reform movement, in many instances seeing its prospects as closely intertwined… Read more>>
Join us this week as NCAJ hosts two conversations on access to justice at the Annual Conference of the NLADA on November 1st and 2nd in Houston, Texas
October 29, 2018
This week in Texas, we hope you will join us as NCAJ hosts two conversations about access to justice. The first will be on Tracking Outcomes from 4:15 to 4:45 pm on November 1, 2018. The second will be about Building the Civil… Read more>>
NCAJ Hosts A2J Summit in Partnership with A2J Initiative at Fordham Law School
October 13, 2018
Leaders Gather for A2J Summit On October 2, 2018 thought leaders in the access-to-justice and social justice spheres came together at Fordham Law to consider the state of the movement for civil justice reform. Participants worked to develop vision statements,… Read more>>
National Science Foundation Announces AtJ Scholarship Project, naming Rebecca Sandefur, principal investigator, and Alyx Mark & David Udell, co-principal investigators
August 3, 2018
On July 23, 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new award to promote AtJ scholarship, naming Rebecca Sandefur principal investigator, and Alyx Mark & David Udell co-principal investigators. At the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) we are excited about the… Read more>>