The Commission’s goals include the following:
- Coordinate access to justice activities in Virginia
- Actively engage the Supreme Court of Virginia, together with Virginia’s judiciary at all levels throughout the Commonwealth, in enhancing equal access to justice
- Identify barriers to obtaining needed legal services, and develop solutions
- Mobilize legal professionals in closing the justice gap by:
- Increasing awareness of the importance of access to justice and the legal community’s obligation to help provide it
- Promoting universal participation among the legal community in providing pro bono publico services, particularly for low income individuals, and transforming legal culture/expectations about doing so
- Engaging Virginia’s law schools in access to justice issues to inculcate a culture of pro bono service among Virginia’s newest lawyers while harnessing their time, talents and energy as a part of their formal legal education to assist in the effort of closing the justice gap for Virginia’s underserved
- Encourage development of auxiliary resources (such as low-literacy legal information, simpler court forms, technological aids, etc.) for underserved populations
- Strengthen delivery of civil legal services through Virginia’s legal aid societies and other pro bono initiatives and nonprofit legal services entities