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Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt

Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt. Class 2: The unmet need. September 2, 2004. Next Class- September 9. Web exercise and paper topics due - September 20 No class on 9/16 for Rosh Hashanah No class 9/23 to facilitate your site visits

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Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt

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  1. Access to Justice and TechnologyRonald W. Staudt Class 2: The unmet need. September 2, 2004

  2. Next Class- September 9 • Web exercise and paper topics due- September 20 No class on 9/16 for Rosh Hashanah No class 9/23 to facilitate your site visits • Alan Houseman, Access to Justice Conference September 11, 2001: Civil Legal Assistance for Low-Income Persons: Looking Back and Looking Forward, LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1213  (2002) • Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.gov • Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State…site visit reports due 9/30

  3. Shift to the Digital ParadigmWill Hornsby • Unmet need • Two tiers of law practice: corporate/institutional clients & personal plight lawyers • Pro se and unbundling • Inefficiencies of traditional model and digital design efficiencies

  4. Inefficiencies of traditional model and digital design efficiencies • Client developmenthttp://www.truckerlawyers.com/ • Intake and screening http://www.jacoby-and-meyers.com/form.html • Client education • Form preparation • Geographical barriers • Ongoing client communication • Dispute resolution www.squaretrade.com • Ancillary businesses

  5. What is Unbundling? • “The client is in charge of selecting one of several discrete lawyering tasks contained within the full-service package.” • Forrest Mosten

  6. Why do we care? • Access to Justice remains a serious problem in the US and “…by providing limited service representation or ‘unbundled’ services in the area of civil law [we may be able to] stretch limited ‘free’ services and make for cost services affordable to a larger segment of our society. Kim Prochnau King County Superior Court Administrator

  7. Today’s Class Unmet need and self represented litigants • ABA Legal Needs Study • Rhode article on NonLawyer practice • Access to Justice book

  8. ABA Legal Needs Studies. http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/publications/home.html http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/downloads/sclaid/legalneedstudy.pdf Will Hornsby Staff Counsel, ABA Division for Legal Services, http://www.abanet.org/legalservices, sponsor of http://www.findlegalhelp.org

  9. Professionalism in Perspective: Alternative Approaches to Nonlawyer PracticeD. Rhode, 1 J. Inst. Stud. Leg. Eth. 197 (1996) • 1976 – 1996- 2004, changes in the landscape? • Self help books and services • Unauthorized practice rules • Non lawyer performance and client satisfaction • Public protection concerns • Price competition • Court simplification • Law school curriculum/structural changes

  10. Access to Justice book www.judgelink.org/a2j Charter: http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_design/charter.cfm

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