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Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt. Class 3: The Supply: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People Guest: Leslie Corbett, Chicago Bar Foundation February 12, 2003. February 12. Web exercise and paper topics due
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Access to Justice and TechnologyRonald W. Staudt Class 3: The Supply: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People Guest: Leslie Corbett, Chicago Bar Foundation February 12, 2003
February 12 • Web exercise and paper topics due • 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) • Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State…reports 2/26 • Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.gov
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
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
What is Unbundling? • “The client is in charge of selecting one of several discrete lawyering tasks contained within the full-service package.” • Forrest Mosten
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
Today’s Class: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People • 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) • Leslie Corbett: Cook County Hot Line Experience • Discuss Paper topics and site visits
LSC Act of 1974:Five Fundamental Objectives • continuing the "present vital legal services program"; • ensuring "equal access" to our system of justice "for individuals who seek a redress of grievances"; • providing "high quality legal assistance to those who would be otherwise unable to afford adequate legal counsel"; • keeping the legal services program "free from the influence of or use by it of political pressures," • assuring that "attorneys providing legal assistance ... have full freedom to protect the best interests of their clients in keeping with the [ethics codes] ... and the high standards of the legal profession."
New Plans/ New Methods of Delivery • Coordinated service delivery- one state system • Coordinated Advice and Brief Services • Accessible intake systems • Gateways to State CIvilwith no lawyers • TIG grants and Internet tools…
Access to Justice book www.judgelink.org/a2j Charter: http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_design/charter.html
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