Leadership Workshop on Access to Justice
Leveraging Law Students and Technology
June 8–9, 2006
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Sponsored by
Chicago-Kent College of Law and
The Center for Computer-Aided Legal Instruction
Funded by
The State Justice Institute and the Center for Access to the Courts through Technology
>>Download a copy of the Leveraging Law Students and Technology White Paper here<<
Chicago-Kent College of Law and CALI hosted a national workshop on June 8th and 9th 2006, 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.
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 and 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 |
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