For courts, legal aid and schools
Help shape future court and legal-aid pilots.
Planned collaboration with courts, legal aid, lawyers and classrooms. Assignment tools and completion reporting are not available on this website.
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Courts
Fewer violation hearings and warrants.
Legal aid
Prepare more clients with the same staff.
Lawyers
Clients who arrive prepared.
Schools
Civics and mock trial, made playable.
Legal aid turns away about half of the people who ask.
We aim to work with legal aid on future practice access for people they cannot serve. That program is not active yet; use official legal-help resources today.
Source: Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap (2022).
The problem
Courts give people forms. Nobody gives them a rehearsal.
76%
of civil cases in the NCSC study had at least one self-represented party
92%
of low-income Americans’ civil legal problems received no or insufficient legal help
75%
of winning claimants in the Albany small-claims survey collected none of their judgment
Your research points to a gap between having a form and being ready to use it. Unshaken is built around rehearsal: explaining the facts, responding to questions, and understanding what comes next.
Sources cited in the product materials: NCSC, Landscape of Civil Litigation (2015); Legal Services Corporation, Justice Gap (2022); NYPIRG Albany Small Claims Survey (2024). These studies cover different populations; the Albany findings are local, not a national collection rate. These are access-to-justice findings, not measured results from Unshaken.
Explore LSC’s Justice Gap research →