1. Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt Class 2: The unmet need. January 29, 2003

2. 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. 1213 (2002)LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1213 Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State…reports 2/26 Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.govwww.lsc.gov

3. 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

4. Client development http://www.truckerlawyers.com/ http://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

8. Access to Justice book www.judgelink.org/a2j Charter: http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_d esign/charter.html http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_d esign/charter.html

9. ABA Legal Needs Studies. http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/publication s/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, http://www.abanet.org/legalservices sponsor of http://www.findlegalhelp.org http://www.findlegalhelp.org

10. Needs & Technologies Divorces Uncontested  Ex parte  Agreed Contested-- The digital divide Lower barriers