Our Work

LSC’s Civil Court Data Initiative has partnered with the Virginia Equity Center and the RVA Eviction Lab to understand the nature of formal and informal evictions across Virginia. The findings of this work, linked below, are summarized here.

We are pleased to release LSC’s report, Legal Representation in Virginia: Debt Collection and Eviction Cases, which examines trends in legal representation and outcomes in debt collection and eviction cases in Virginia’s General District Court from 2018 to 2023.

We are pleased to release LSC’s Baseline Court Statistics (BCS) dataset, a dataset of aggregate civil case filing counts from 39 states and territories. This is the first county-level dataset containing filing counts across multiple civil legal case types.

Dan Bernstein, Madeline Youngren

Civil court records hold great potential for access to justice, but they are difficult to access and often have data quality and documentation issues. Partnerships with courts can overcome many of these barriers.

Sarah Abdelhadi, Ranya Ahmed, Madeline Youngren, Dan Bernstein, Center for Public Health Law Center

The Eviction Laws Database is a comprehensive online tool that allows users to explore the entire legal process of eviction – from pre-filing to post-judgment – in communities across the country.

Ranya Ahmed, Madeline Youngren, Dan Bernstein, Sarah Abdelhadi, Soren Gran, Mary Slosar

National and state eviction moratoria during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted renters in different ways. LSC’s eviction data gives some indications of how these policies impacted eviction in different jurisdictions.