Access to Justice and TechnologyRonald 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 HashanahNo 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

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

Inefficiencies of traditional model and digital design efficiencies

Client developmenthttp://www.truckerlawyers.com/Intake and screeninghttp://www.jacoby-and-meyers.com/form.html

Client educationForm preparationGeographical barriersOngoing client communicationDispute resolutionwww.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 ProchnauKing County Superior Court Administrator

Today’s Class

Unmet need and self represented litigants

ABA Legal Needs Study

Rhode article on NonLawyer practice

Access to Justice book

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

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 servicesUnauthorized practice rulesNon lawyer performance and client satisfactionPublic protection concernsPrice competitionCourt simplificationLaw school curriculum/structural changes

Access to Justice book

www.judgelink.org/a2j

Charter: http://www.judgelink.org/a2j/system_design/charter.cfm