Chicago-Kent College of Law: 2003 Access to Justice & Technology Seminar, Professor Staudt


	Professor Ronald W. Staudt



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	CLASS 1 — THURSDAY, AUG 26
	Topic 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 HTML version

	CLASS 2 — THURSDAY, SEPT 2
	Topic Unmet Need & Self-represented Litigants Class Outline		Required Reading Deborah L. Rhode, Professionalism in Perspective: Alternative Approaches to Nonlawyer Practice, 1 J. Inst. Stud. Leg. Eth. 197 (1996). ABA Legal Needs Study Illinois Legal Needs Study - not available as of 9/2/2004 Recommended Reading Owen, Staudt & Pedwell, Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants (2002).

	CLASS 3 — THURSDAY, SEPT 9
	Topic Supply: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People Web Exercise and Paper Topics Due on Monday, Sept. 20 Class Outline Guest Lecturer: Lisa Colpoys Executive Director Illinois Technology Center for Law and Public Interest		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) Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.gov

	CLASS 4 — THURSDAY, SEPT 23
	No Class		Site visits and preparation of site visit reports take the place of class this week.

	CLASS 5 — THURSDAY, SEPT 30
	Topic Financing Legal Services Guest Speaker Mark Marquardt Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois Site visit reports due. Figuel Presentation		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 LSC President's Address to IL Statewide Conference – July 29, 2002 Skim the following report from the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid: Innovative Fund Raising Ideas for Legal Services- 2004 Edition

	CLASS 6 — THURSDAY, OCT 7
	Topic The Setting: Courts and Agencies 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). Recommended Reading In divorce cases, more of the poor go it alone By Crystal Yednak, Tribune staff reporter

	CLASS 7 — THURSDAY, OCT 14
	Topic New Technologies to Increase Supply Student Group Presentation Student Annotated Bibliography Seminar Paper Outlines Due Class Outline 2003 Gordon Overview by Student team		Required Reading (Sweeney piece recommended by 2004 Student Team.) 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). Dennis J. Sweeney, The Common Law Process: A New Look at an Ancient Value Delivery, 79 Wash. L. Rev. 251 (February, 2004). Review the Technology Bill of Rights site in Washington. Highly Recommended 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). Recommended Readings by 2003 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).

	CLASS 8 — THURSDAY, OCT 21
	Topic Barriers to Innovative Solutions Student Group Presentation Guest Lecturer: Will Hornsby		Required 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). Recommended Reading Jona Goldschmidt, The Pro Se Litigant’s Struggle for Access to Justice, 40 Fam. Ct. Rev. 36 (2002). Recommended Readings by 2004 Student Group 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, OCT 28
	Topic Alternatives to Current Justice Process Student Group Presentation Class Outline First Draft of Paper Due		Required Reading 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). Recommended Readings by 2004 Students Recommended Readings by 2003 Student Group 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, NOV 4
	Topic No Class		Note Schedule an individual meeting to discuss your paper.

	CLASS 11 — THURSDAY, NOV 11
	Topic Illinoislegalaid.org Illinoisprobono.org Illinoislawhelp.org		Required Reading Review websites Note Dan Rieken, Gwen Daniels and Betsy Ehler from the Illinois Technology Center for Law and the Public Interest have been invited to present an overview of this organization, its technology and the progress on its aggressive agenda for access to justice using technology in Illinois.

	CLASS 12 — THURSDAY, NOV 18
	Topic Student Presentations		Presentations By Brendan Bresnahan Leigh Callander Pantea Mahim Ronald Michel

	CLASS 13 — TUESDAY, NOV 30
	Topic Student Presentations		Presentations By Matthew Freeman Jessica Jeffries Ylda Kopka Ean Kryska Grace Song

	CLASS 14 — WEDNESDAY, DEC 1
	Topic Student Presentations Wrap-up Final Papers Due		Presentations By Patrick Casey Melissa Freeman Luke Novak Jennifer Weaver

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