Voices for Civil Justice | Civil legal aid communications

Welcome to VoicesforCivilJustice.org — Civil legal aid advocates, use this site to improve your messaging and cement a national identity for civil legal aid. You can also read tips to accomplish common media tasks, and see a sample story bank. Finally, this site compiles and organizes past examples of media coverage that shows how civil legal aid helps ensure fairness in America’s justice system.

Collect and tell stories of the clients and practitioners who show how to fix the civil justice crisis.

Khabirah Myers, Newark Office of Tenant Legal Services Coordinator, discusses the eviction situation in Newark during coronavirus.

MESSAGING

Tell people why civil legal aid matters

HOW-TOS

Get it done: Common media tasks

STORIES

Examples bring civil legal aid to life

DATABASE

Search and filter 2,716 press clips (2014-2021)

Most tenants facing eviction go to court without a lawyer

Read more about how civil legal aid protects homes

Eviction court hallway — During corona, Nashville Legal Aid was overwhelmed trying to help tenants facing eviction. (Photo: Courtesy of Law360)

Download graphic message tiles (sample below)

Five different message tiles available in two sizes here

Playing field tilts toward the wealthy and represented (pink graphic)

VOICES MANUALS (PRIVATE)

About the Manuals section

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Contains no passwords or sensitive info — Although the manual section is private, it contains no passwords, licenses, vendor account details, security details, staff personal details, or other sensitive information. Indeed, much of the information in the manuals could be gleaned from careful study of the public site and other public activities of Voices. Please do not add any sensitive information.

Feedback and improvements welcome — Feedback of any kind welcome. If you see a simple line edit needed on a page, just do it. Creating pages is more difficult because they are private. So email the site administrator if you’d like them to create a new page or even subsection. Once the new page(s) is created, you can edit the page text. Graphics, screenshots, etc. very welcome.