Leveraging Law Students and Technology

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Leadership Workshop on Access to Justice
Leveraging Law Students and Technology

June 8-9, 2006
Chicago-Kent College of Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law and CALI hosted a national workshop on June 8th and 9th, gathering leaders from legal services, legal education, and court administration to map an agenda for collaboration using A2J Author® and related technology to leverage law school resources to increase access to justice. The workshop focused on finding the incentives and structures needed to engage law students more fully in addressing the unmet legal services need for low income people using technology.

Participants examined existing models of harnessing technology to leverage law students to address the unmet legal services need for low income people. After brainstorming to identify challenges to the success of such programs, participants worked in groups to propose new solutions and incentives, and to analyze how to put the proposed solutions into effect.

Download a copy of the Leveraging Law Students White Paper here.

Workshop Participants:

Hon. Michael Dennard Magistrate Judge Fourth Judicial District Court of the State of Idaho	Hon. Fern A. Fisher New York City Civil Courts, New York County, NY
Andy Levy Director of Market Development LexisNexis File & Serve	Hon. Lora Livingston Travis County District Courts, TX
Tad H.W. Biggs, II System Technology Administrator U.S. District Courts Eastern Missouri	Brenda Bratton Blom Professor of Law, Director, Clinical Law Program University of Maryland School of Law
Jeanne Charn Director of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School	Brian Donnelly Director of Educational Technology and Lecturer in Law Columbia University School of Law
Clark Kelso Director of the Capital Center for Gov’t Law and Policy, Director of the Governmental Affairs Program and Professor of Law McGeorge School of Law	John Mayer Executive Director The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
Mike Norwood Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law University of New Mexico School of Law	Heidi Ramos Southern Illinois University School of Law SHLC/Staff Attorney
Ronald W. Staudt Professor of Law Associate Vice President for Law, Business and Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law	James Park Taylor Visiting Clinical Supervisor University of Montana School of Law
David Ackerly Director of Private Attorney Involvement Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles	Bob Cohen Executive Director Legal Aid Society of Orange County, CA
Joseph Dailing Executive Director Illinois Coalition for Equal Justice Chicago Bar Foundation	Richard S. Granat, Esq. President and CEO of MyLawyer.com, Inc., President of Rapidocs US, Inc.
David Hall Executive Director Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid	Will Hornsby Staff Counsel for the Division of Legal Services American Bar Association
Marc Lauritsen President, Capstone Practice Systems, Inc.	Wayne Moore AARP, Senior Advisor of Policy and Strategy
Glenn Rawdon Program Counsel for Technology Legal Services Corporation	Daniel J. Rieken Director of Content Development Illinois Legal Aid Online
David Yoder Executive Director Legal Aid of East Tennessee	Elena Shea Demos, Esq. Chief Deputy General Counsel Human Resources Bureau Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County