Florida chief justice Jorge Labarga.

FLORIDA CHIEF JUSTICE JORGE LABARGA speaks with a member of the audience in April in Washington, D.C., at the Legal Services Corporation's Litigants Without Lawyers: Equal Justice Under Threat in State Courts program. Labarga had just finished a Senate briefing on the problems posed by the millions of pro se litigants crowding America's state courts. Others on the panel included Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Tennessee Chief Justice Sharon Lee, and Kentucky Chief Justice John Minton, Jr. The discussion was moderated by LSC President James J. Sandman. Labarga, who chairs the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice, said too many Floridians continue to encounter barriers when seeking meaningful and informed access to...