NEXT GENERATION LEGAL SERVICES DESKTOP (NGLSD) TIG PROJECT UPDATE EQUAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE MAY 2010 Steven McGarrity, Associate Director, CLAS Kathleen Brockel, Executive Director, NTAP

The 5-Minute Agenda Overview of the Project Legal Services Gadgets in Development Save-the-Dates for Training

NGLSD - Overview The Next Generation Legal Services Desktop (NGLSD) is based on the content model and will increase the productivity of legal services advocates by giving them a customizable single point of access to a variety of web-accessible legal services centric content useful to their practice.

Example - Montana

LS Gadgets in Development Court Directory Gadget - This gadget is an HTML-based gadget connected to a MySQL database (managed by CLAS), there are no security or confidentiality risks to programs using this link gadget.

LS Gadgets in Development Case Management Tickle Gadget - This gadget is a URL –based gadget that links to the users case management website. Authentication is allowed based on the users access privilege to their programs case management system through the web. No case information is stored on Google (cloud) servers. Users can access this box with mobile devices such as an iPhone.

LS Gadgets in Development Legal Aid Lawyer Tech Tip Gadget (RSS Feed) through WordPress – This gadget would using a free wordpress.com account where the tips would be posted as blog entries. Wordpress.com automatically generates an RSS feed that we can plug into as an rss gadget. Authorized people will be given the secret address that will allow them to post to the wordpress.com blog. May use NTAP for this connection.wordpress.com HotDocs & A2J Box – Will be a box of links to statewide website, LHI templates.

Save-the-Dates: Training by NTAP Friday, July 9, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, August 3, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, September 14, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Register for training at lsntap.org

Contact Information Steven McGarrity – Kathleen Brockel – Questions ?