2010 Futures Conference & Symposium
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2010 Futures Conference & Symposium
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Hitting the Reset Button1:30-2:30 Friday, October 22 at AU
• Knowledge tools, elawyering, unbundling and more…technology lets lawyers work smarter, find and serve new markets and expand access to justice for real people and organizations.
Moderator: Ron Staudt, Center for Access to Justice & Technology;
Marc Lauritsen, “The Lawyer’s Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools;
Will Hornsby, ABA Standing Committee on Delivery of Legal Services
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Startling Statistics• 383,000 low income Illinois households face 1.3 million legal
problems each year• 83% of these legal needs of go unmet—
– Roughly 1.1 million legal issues every year
Steady Rise in Self Representation in U.S. Courts
• For example, at least one unrepresented party in 2/3 of divorce cases in Phoenix and 80% in Florida. Half of Florida divorces are totally pro se.
• In 2009 in Chicago, creditor cases tripled,
“Therefore, you could say pro se cases have tripled!”
Poverty Law Reset ButtonLSC- Technology Initiative Grants
• Statewide Web Sites– Internet Platforms for Transformation
• National Public Automated Document Server (now Law Help Interactive)-InnoVaction Awardee!!– Building a technical community of transformation agents
• A2J Author– A Surprising Success
TIG 2010 6
TIG 2010 7
A2J Author® Pro Se Interface
A2J Author® Pro Se Interface
A2J Author® Pro Se Interface
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A2J Author®: Document assembly front-end
Petition for a Protection Order
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What’s the next step?
Where do I go?Who do I need to
contact?
A2J Author®: Website Guide
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Customer DataCM/ECF E-Filing
XML
XML
PDFLEXISNEXIS
A2J Author®: E-Filing Public Interface—US Dist. Court
HotDocs OnLine
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A2J Guided Interview™ for Intake (.a2j files)
A2J Author®: Online Statewide Intake for Iowa Legal Aid
Interview Answers
(.anxFile)
XSLTransform
Transformed Answer Files
Case Management System
Answer File Data Now Available For Review in the
Case Management System….
….conflicts check….attorney review
….processing
A2J Author & HotDocs Activity-Legal Service Corp. & Courts
Legal aid and court developers in in 32 states and 4 foreign countries (Canada, England, France and Australia) use A2J Author®. Most of these States have active, trained legal aid template developers.
On January 29, 2010 Law Help Interactive hosted 3633 active templates and 1,357 A2J Guided Interviews®
In 2009 legal aid customers did 263,763 A2J and HotDocs interviews and assembled over 147,063 documents
Reset or Parallel Universe?
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