CCL President Robert S. Peck addressed members of the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (NAACA) at their annual conference, held this year in Savannah, Georgia, on July 9, about issues of access to the courts.  NAACA is a nine-year-old organization that consists of attorneys employed by state and federal appellate courts across the country.  Peck was a speaker as well at NAACA’s 2012 conference on the topic of the constitutionality of tort reform, held that year in Washington, D.C.  In his remarks, Peck reviewed precedent, constitutional issues, and statutory provisions that impel courts to take specific steps to assure that parties can participate meaningfully in their cases, as well as recent U.S. Department of Justice directives implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. One area of concern that NAACA members sought counsel on was obligations toward parties that do not have fluency in English, a growing concern when recent census statistics indicate that 25 million people in the United States do not speak English in their homes and are not proficient in English.