A2J Clinic eBook

1. Introduction [10] ◄
   1. Why an A2J Clinic? [4] ◄
      1. Access to Justice and Technology Clinics: A 4% Solution, by Ronald W. Staudt and Andrew P. Medeiros
      2. Apps for Justice: Code to the Rescue, by Marc Lauritsen
      3. Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants, by Charles L. Owen et al
      4. Apps 4 Justice: Law Schools, Technology and Access to Justice, by Ronald W. Staudt
   2. Focusing on Practice [2] ◄
      1. Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (“Carnegie Report”)
      2. The Last Days of the American Lawyer, by Thomas D. Morgan
   3. The Modern Law Office [4] ◄
      1. If Only We Knew What We Know, by Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly
      2. Two Questions for Law Schools about the Future Boundaries of the Legal Profession, by Elizabeth Chambliss
      3. Lives of Lawyers Revisited, by Michael J. Kelly
      4. Thinking Like a Lawyer, Designing Like an Architect: Preparing Students for the 21st Century Practice, by Tanina Rostain et al
2. Chapter 1: Professional Values [13] ◄
   1. Knowing Your Role [3] ◄
      1. Professionalism Clearly Defined, by Neil Hamilton
      2. Calling Law a “Profession” Only Confuses Thinking About the Challenges Lawyers Face, by Thomas Morgan
      3. Entering Law Students’ Conception of an Ethical Professional Identity and the Role of the Lawyer in Society, by Verna Monson & Neil W. Hamilton
   2. Knowing Your End User [3] ◄
      1. Goldberg v. Kelly
      2. Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G., by Lucie White
      3. A Judge’s Perspective on Pro Se Litigants, by Helen Gunnarsson
   3. Success in Practice [3] ◄
      1. Mines, Meyer, Mines, Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Toxicity.
      2. Developing Attorneys for the Future: What Can We Learn From the Fast Trackers?, by Lori Berman et al
      3. The Struggles of Lawyer-Leaders and What They Need to Know, by Roland B. Smith
   4. Collaboration & Teamwork [3] ◄
      1. Ruining it for the Rest of Us, by This American Life
      2. Group Learning in Law Schools, A Key to Fostering Professional Formation, by Verna Monson
      3. Two Women, Three Men on a Raft, by Robert Schrank
   5. Additional suggested readings
3. Chapter 2: Technology and the Legal Aid Community [9] ◄
   1. The Justice Problem [4] ◄
      1. Documenting the Justice Gap in America, by the Legal Services Corporation
      2. Self-Represented Litigants and the Access to Justice Revolution in the State Courts: Cross-Pollinating Perspectives Toward a Dialogue for Innovation in the Courts and the Administrative System, by Richard Zorza
      3. Natural Allies: Philanthropy and Civil Legal Aid
      4. Celebrating the “Null” Finding: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Access to Legal Services, by Jenna Charn
   2. Using Technology to Solve Justice Problems [1] ◄
      1. Legal Services Corporation Encourages Technical Innovation
   3. Examples [3] ◄
      1. LegalAidKY video on “How to Use A2J Author”
      2. NYCourtsA2J video on New York’s “Do-It-Yourself Forms”
      3. Illinois Legal Aid Online
   4. Additional suggested readings
4. Chapter 3: Technology and the Private Practice [14] ◄
   1. Big Data [2] ◄
      1. Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry
      2. Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and Efficient Than Exhaustive Manual Review, by Maura Grossman and Gordan Cormack
   2. Disrupting Legal Practice [7] ◄
      1. What Can Information Technology Do For the Law?, by Jonathan Jenkins
      2. Darryl Mountain, Disrupting Conventional Law Firm Business Models Using Document Assembly (2006).
      3. eLawyering and the Future of Legal Work by William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2010)
      4. Darryl Mountain, Could New Technologies Cause Great Law Firms to Fail? (2001)
      5. Lawrence Cunningham, Language, Deals and Standards: The Future of XML Contracts (2006).
      6. Gillian Hadfield, Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets (2008)
      7. Legal Industry Startups: An Overview
   3. Project Management [2] ◄
      1. Marc Lauritsen, “Fall In Line with Document Assembly” (2006).
      2. Stephanie Kimbro, Practicing Law Online; Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office (2010).
   4. Personal Legal Services [3] ◄
      1. William Hornsby, Challenging the Academy to a Dual (Perspective): The Need to Embrace Lawyering for Personal Legal Services, Maryland Law Review (2011)
      2. Ron Friedmann, The Business Case for Delivering Legal Advice Over the Web (2001).
      3. TIG-funded Webinar Helps Legal Aid Providers Weigh Benefits and Risks of the Cloud
5. Chapter 4: Technology and Ethics [10] ◄
   1. Relating to your End-User [5] ◄
      1. Will Hornsby, The Ethics of Client Development Through Technology (2010).
      2. Taiwo Oriola, The Use of Legal Software by Non-Lawyers and the Perils of Unauthorised Practice of Law Charges in the United States (2010).
      3. Catherine Lanctot, Scriveners in Cyberspace: Online Document Preparation and the Unlicensed Practice of Law (2002).
      4. ABA’s Law Practice Management Section on e-Lawyering.
      5. ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, White Paper: An Analysis of Rules that Allow Lawyers to Serve Pro Se Litigants (2009).
   2. Managing Data Ethically [3] ◄
      1. Catherine Lanctot, Attorney-Client Relationships in Cyberspace: The Peril and The Promise (1999).
      2. Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Online Document Assembly Services (2010 Webinar).
      3. Danielle Citron, Technological Due Process (2007).
   3. Novel Problems [2] ◄
      1. Will Hornsby, Professional Responsibility When Lawyering in a Virtual World (2008).
      2. Laurel S. Terry, Steve Mark, and Tahlia Gordon, Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology (2012).
6. Chapter 5: Usability [10] ◄
   1. Plain Language [6] ◄
      1. Jeff Hogue's Plain Language Online Course: A Self Guided Learning Experience [0]
      2. Jeff Hogue’s Plain Language Online Course: A Self Guided Learning Experience
      3. A Plain Language Handbook: Write For Your Reader, by NWT Literacy Council
      4. Plain Language tools from WriteClearly.org
      5. The Principles of Readability by William H. DuBay
      6. Looks Matter: A Transcend Lesson on Plain Language and Readability
      7. Additional resources
   2. Visual Presentation [3] ◄
      1. Best Practices in the Use of Technology to Facilitate Access to Justice Initiatives, by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
      2. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines, at Usability.gov
      3. Additional Resources from Usability.gov
   3. Additional suggested readings
7. Chapter 6: Software Materials [10] ◄
   1. Software and the Law [4] ◄
      1. Leveraging Law Students and Technology to Meet the Legal Needs of Low-Income People, by Ronald W. Staudt
      2. Learning software development — by developing software, by Larry Hardesty
      3. Thinking like a Lawyer, Designing like an Architect: Preparing Students for the 21st Century Practice, by Tanina Rostain et al
      4. If Only We Knew What We Know, by Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly
   2. HotDocs [3] ◄
      1. HotDocs 10 Developer Installation Guide and Tutorial
      2. Help Topics for HotDocs Developer 10
      3. Standards and Practices for HotDocs Server Applications in Legal Services
   3. A2J Author [2] ◄
      1. A2J Author® Authoring Guide
      2. Best Practices Guide for Court System Development and Implementation Using A2J Author®
   4. Neota Logic [0]
   5. Examples [1] ◄
      1. All Inclusive A2J Guided Interview®
8. Chapter 7: Alternative Applications for A2J Guided Interviews [10] ◄
   1. A Look to the Future [1] ◄
      1. Ronald W. Staudt, All the Wild Possibilities: Technology that Attacks Barriers to Access to Justice, 42 Loyola L.A. Law Rev. 1117 (2009).
   2. Automation and Artificial Intelligence [3] ◄
      1. Edwina Rissland, Artificial Intelligence and Law: Stepping Stones to a Model of Legal Reasoning (1990).
      2. Cass Sunstein, Of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning (2001).
      3. Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, Automated Decision Making Comes of Age (2005).
   3. Online intake [6] ◄
      1. Final Reports [3] ◄
         1. TIG 09558: Northwest Justice Project Clear Online
         2. TIG 09478: Utah Legal Services Online Intake
         3. TIG 07193: Legal Aid of Western Ohio Online Intake
      2. Two more TIG recipients Successfully Launch Online Intake and Triage Portals
      3. NorthWest Justice Project allows users to Get Legal Help through CLEAR*Online.
      4. ABLE and LAWO allow users to access their Legal Help Line through the web in both Spanish and English.
9. Specialty Clinics [9] ◄
   1. Health Care Rights [9] ◄
      1. ABA Model Rule, 1.14: Client with Diminished Capacity
      2. A Clinical Practitioner’s Guide to Social Security Benefits, by Flowers et al
      3. Lawyers and Clients: Connection Across Difference and Similarity, by Ellman et al
      4. Goldberg v. Kelly
      5. Mathews v. Eldridge
      6. A Guide to Naturalization, by US CIS
      7. Appellee’s Answer Brief, Florida Dept. of Health v. Miguel Mora Rodriguez, Case No. 1D07-3323 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007)
      8. Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G., by Lucie White
      9. The Mother with Poor Judgment and Other Tales of the Unexpected: A Civic Republican View of Difference and Clinical Legal Education, by Peter Marglies