1. Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt
Class 6:
The setting: Courts and Agencies
October 7, 2004

2. Today
John M. Greacen, Self Represented Litigants and Court and Legal Services Responses to Their Needs:  What We Know, (2nd draft, July 20, 2002).
Reports of your visits to Cook County Advice Desk; Pro Se Court; Landlord Tenant Call in the Daley Center, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

3. The setting: Graecen
Studies showing the number of self represented litigants.
By State
Phoenix
Florida
Others
Cook County Divorces
By type of case
Criminal v. Civil
Limited v. General Jurisdiction
Family Law
By Demographics
Income
Age
Race

4. The setting: Graecen
Studies showing impact of self representation on court process and outcome
Length of trial or other proceedings
Outcome
Other demands of justice system

5. The setting: Graecen
Court/Legal Services programs & advice/information issue
13 questions about effectiveness from both client and court perspective
Service, satisfaction, education, expectations, actions, outcomes
Cost effective wrt other options
Just outcomes

6. The Setting Advice desk & Self Help Web Desk Cook County Forcible Call
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Pro Se Court

7. 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."

8. Access to Justice book
Charter: