Chicago-Kent College of Law: 2007 Access to Justice & Technology Seminar, Professor Staudt


	Professor Ronald W. Staudt



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Class & Date	Topic & Outline	Reading

Class 1 Thursday January 25, 2007	Introduction Course Process Web exercise team and topic assignments Class Outline	Required Reading Will Hornsby, Improving the Delivery of Affordable Legal Services Through the Internet: A Blueprint for the Shift to a Digital Paradigm

Class 2 Thursday February 1, 2007	Unmet Need & Self-represented Litigants	Required Reading Deborah L. Rhode, Professionalism in Perspective: Alternative Approaches to Nonlawyer Practice, 1 J. Inst. Stud. Leg. Eth. 197 (1996). Illinois Legal Needs Study Recommended Reading Owen, Staudt & Pedwell, Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants (2002). ABA Legal Needs Study

Class 3 Thursday February 8, 2007	Supply: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People Web Exercise and Paper Topics Due on Monday, February 12, 2007. Class Outline	Required Reading 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) Richard Granat, Technology and Marketing in a New Age - eLawyering for a Competitive Advantage Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk; CARPLS; Prairie State… Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.gov

Class 4 Thursday February 15, 2007	No Class	Site visits and preparation of site visit reports take the place of class this week.

Class 5 Thursday February 22, 2007	Financing Legal Services Site visit reports due. Fiquel Presentation Student Presentation by Melinda Stanley, Kristin Weber and Stacy Weissman Class Outline	Required Reading on Financing Legal Services Washington Legal Foundation v. Legal Foundation of Washington, 2003 U.S. LEXIS 2493 (March 26, 2003) Legal Services Corporation Budget Requests Illinois Equal Justice Foundation 2007 grants announced. Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois Grants

Class 6 Thursday March 1, 2007	The Setting: Courts and Agencies Student presentations on site visits in class' The first part of class will be a discussion of the site visits Class Outline	Required Reading John M. Greacen, Self Represented Litigants and Court and Legal Services Responses to Their Needs: What We Know, (2nd draft, July 20, 2002). In Divorce Cases, More of the Poor Go It Alone, by Crystal Yednak, Tribune Staff Reporter

Class 7 March 7, 2006	New Technologies to Increase Supply Seminar Paper Outlines Due Student Group Presentation by James Bambrick, Nicole Racovitis and Matthew Strothoff	Required Reading Richard Magnus, The Confluence of Law and Policy in Leveraging Technology: Singapore Judiciary's Experience, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 661 (2004) Review the Singapore Court web sites referenced in the Magnus article, especially www.justiceonline.com.sg. Review the system elements recommended as solutions to court customer barriers in: Owen, Staudt & Pedwell, Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants (2002). Review Ron Friedmann's consulting website: Prism Legal Consulting. Review the following documents from District Judge Han Li TOH Subordinate Courts Singapore: Pilot Scheme for Lay Assistants Law Undergrads in Court Pilot Scheme Recommended Reading Julia Gordon, Equal Justice and the Digital Revolution: Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Low-Income People, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, (2001). Review the Technology Bill of Rights site in Washington Recommended Readings by 2004 Student Group Deborah Rhode, Access to Justice: Connecting Principles to Practice, 17 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 369 (Spring, 2004). Judith L. Maute & Cheryl Lynn Wofford Hill, Delivery Systems Under Construction: Ongoing Works in Progress, 72 UMKC L. Rev. 377 (Winter, 2003). Dennis J. Sweeney, The Common Law Process: A New Look at an Ancient Value Delivery, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 251 (February, 2004). Recommended Readings by 2004 Student Group Erin Walsh, Some Call it ELawyering: is it a Brave New World or an Ethical Quagmire?, 12 Feb. Bus. L. Today 51 (2003). Ilene Mitchell, Technology and the Removal of Access Barriers for Pro Se Litigants http://www.judgelink.org/Insights/2000/AccessBarriers/ (Last visited February 12, 2003). James Holmes, The Technological Revolution for Legal Services Organizations May Change Your Practice, State Bar of Texas (July 30, 2002).
Spring Break - March 10 - 18

Class 8 Thursday March 22, 2007	Barriers to Innovative Solutions Student Group Presentation by Meghan Moore Owens Shelby Gina Lamancusa	Required Reading Robert Bickel, Student Author, Limited Legal Services: Is it Worth it? 39 Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs. 331 (Sping 2006). Recommended Reading Emily K. Spitser, The Ethics of Unbundling Legal Services in America: Re-visiting American Legal Ethics at the Turn of the Millennium (pgs. 24-43) Catherine J. Lanctot, Attorney-Client Relationships in Cyberspace: The Perils and the Promise, 49 Duke Law Journal 147 (1999). Jean Holcomb, The Digital Divide and Digital Justice: Do clients need a Technology Bill of Rights?, (Washington State Access to Justice) Richard Zorza, Responses to the Conference: Re-Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Legal Ethics and Technological Innovation in Legal Practice: From Threat to Opportunity, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 2659 (1999). Jona Goldschmidt, The Pro Se Litigant’s Struggle for Access to Justice, 40 Fam. Ct. Rev. 36 (2002). Recommended Reading Recommended Readings by 2004 Student Group Unbundled Legal Services: Can the Unseen Hand Sanctioned? Recommended Readings by 2003 Student Group And Justice for All – Including the Unrepresented Poor: Revisiting the Roles of the Judges, Mediators, and Clerks, 67 Fordham L. Rev. (1987). Unbundled Legal Services: Can the Unseen Hand be Sanctioned?

Class 9 Thursday March 29, 2007	Alternatives to Current Justice Process Student Group Presentation by Ben Householder, Todd Melton, Heidi Slaw First Draft of Paper Due	Required Reading Nadja Alexander, Mobile Mediation: How Technology is Driving the Globalization of ADR, 27 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol'y 243 (2006). Andrea M. Braeutigam, Fusses That Fit Online: Online Mediation in Non-commercial Contexts, 5 Appalachian J. L. 275 (2006). Joseph W. Goodman, The Pros and Cons of Online Dispute Resolution: An Assessment of Cyber-Mediation Websites, 2003 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 4 (2003). Recommended Readings by 2004 Students Recommended Readings by 2003 Student Group Louise Ellen Teitz, Symposium: Providing Legal Services For The Middle Class In Cyberspace: The Promise And Challenge Of On-Line Dispute Resolution , 70 Fordham L. Rev. 985 (2001). Susan Nauss Exon, The Internet Meets Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Court of Next Resort, 8 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 1 (2002). William Krause, Do You Want to Step Outside? An Overview of Online Alternative Dispute Resolution, 19 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 457 (Spring, 2001). Lan Q. Hang, Online Dispute Resolution Systems: The Future of Cyberspace Law Edited, 41 Santa Clara L. Rev. 837 (2001). Jeffrey Scott Wolfe, Across the Ripple of Time: The Future of Alternative (or, is it "Appropriate?") Dispute Resolution, 36 Tulsa L.J. 785.

Class 10 Thursday April 5, 2007	No Class	Note Schedule an individual meeting to discuss your paper.

Class 11 Thursday April 12, 2007	Class Outline National Legal Services Document Assembly Server Access to Justice Author at Chicago Kent College of Law Illinois Legal Aid Online Illinoislegalaid.org Illinoisprobono.org Illinoislawhelp.org	Required Reading Ronald W. Staudt, Technology for Justice Custom Bridging the Digital Divide Facing Self Representing Litigants, 5 U. of Md. J. of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 71. See Also for background: New Skills New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology by Gene Koo

Class 12 Thursday April 19, 2007	Student Presentations	Ben Householder - Digital Divide Gina Lamancusa - Video Conferencing and Physically Disabled Access to Justice Nicole Racovitis - Language Barriers to Access to Justice

Class 13 Thursday April 26, 2007	Student Presentations	Owens Shelby - Alternatives to Traditional Legal Services Meghan Moore - Innovative Law Practice - Immigration Lens Todd Melton - Negotiation Support Systems

Class 14 Thursday May 3, 2007	Student Presentations Wrap-up Final Papers Due	Jim Bambrick - Innovations in Legal Services - Katrina Lessons Heidi Slaw - Technology in Legal Services: Ethical Issues Matt Strothoff - Outsourcing - the New Legal Services Supply Source.

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