Court staff and judicial officers face new challenges as they see increasing numbers of self-represented litigants, many unfamiliar with proper legal procedures, substantive law, and the court system and its operation as a whole. Similarly, the increase in limited-English speaking court users and consumers of legal services has introduced additional difficulties, as courts and providers try to serve their constituents without enough resources to guarantee full and meaningful language access to everyone.

Dynamic training programs that not only expose courts and legal providers to the need for high quality language access services, but also offer practical and concrete tools for providing those services effectively and efficiently with often limited resources are critical. Law Within Reach has been training court staff, judicial officers, and legal services providers on issues of language access and the delivery of language services for over a decade. LWR has created curricula specifically for court staff, judicial officers, bilingual staff, and volunteers, and has conducted trainings throughout California and nationally on language access strategies.