The American Bar Association Coalition for Justice supports justice system reform at the state and local levels and urges that such efforts involve the community along with judges and lawyers. Feedback from court and bar officials is that the Coalition can best help by providing current information on justice improvement activities underway across the country. The Coalition thus conducts surveys of state supreme courts, state and local bar associations, and, beginning in 2001, a selection of metropolitan trial courts.

2008-09 surveys will be available Fall 2010.

Past survey summaries can be accessed below.

Bar/Court State and Local Justice Improvement Activities—2003

Summary of State and Local Justice Improvement Activities—2001