Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt Class 2: The unmet need. January 29, 2003
Next Class-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 (2002)LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State…reports 2/26 Explore the Legal Services Corporation website:
Shift to the Digital Paradigm Will 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
Client development Intake and screening Client education Form preparation Geographical barriers Ongoing client communication Dispute resolution 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 Unmet need and self represented litigants
Access to Justice book Charter: esign/charter.html esign/charter.html
ABA Legal Needs Studies. s/home.html sclaid/legalneedstudy.pdf Will Hornsby Staff Counsel, ABA Division for Legal Services, sponsor of
Needs & Technologies Divorces Uncontested Ex parte Agreed Contested-- The digital divide Lower barriers