1. Access to Justice and Technology Ronald W. Staudt Class 2: The unmet need. September 2, 2004

2. Next Class- September 9 Web exercise and paper topics due - September 20 No class on 9/16 for Rosh Hashanah No 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)LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1213 Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.govwww.lsc.gov Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State…site visit reports due 9/30

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 ABA Legal Needs Study Rhode article on NonLawyer practice Access to Justice book

8. 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

9. Professionalism in Perspective: Alternative Approaches to Nonlawyer Practice D. Rhode, 1 J. Inst. Stud. Leg. Eth. 197 (1996) 1976 – 1996- 2004, changes in the landscape? Self help books and services Unauthorized practice rules Non lawyer performance and client satisfaction Public protection concerns Price competition Court simplification Law school curriculum/structural changes

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