Along with the Dane Country Bar Association, Legal Action of Wisconsin,
the Right to Counsel Task Force, the Milwaukee Lawyers, and the
Marquette Student Chapters of the American Constitution Society, the
University of Wisconsin Law School, is co-sponsoring a symposium on
Civil Gideon on May 5, 2010, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in the Club Room
of the Madison Club, with a continental breakfast available from 9:00
a.m.
Civil Gideon stems from the landmark case Gideon v.
Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) in which the United States Supreme
Court ruled that state courts are required to provide counsel in
criminal cases for defendants who cannot afford to retain their own
attorneys. It is the idea that this right should be extended to indigent
litigants in civil cases. John Ebbott of Legal Action will be
moderating this free symposium intended to address the procedural and
legal barriers encountered by self-represented litigants, as well as the
strongest objections to Civil Gideon, its cost, and possible cost
solutions.
Submitted by Erin Syth on March 23, 2010
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