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Briefing presented to the LSC Board in January 2011. Presenters: Scott Bravi, Chief Information Officer, Arnold and Porter Bonnie Hough, Managing Attorney, California Administrative Office of the Courts Mark O'Brien, Executive Director, Pro Bono Net Alison Paul, Executive Director Montana Legal Services Association Richard Zorza, Consultant

Year published: 2011

Document Author: Scott Bravi, Bonnie Rose Hough, Mark O'Brien, Alison Paul, Richard Zorza

The Annual Technology Initiative Grant (TIG) Conference brings together leading technologists and policy makers to explore cutting edge developments. These conferences have had a profound impact on shaping how the access to justice movement uses technology. Some of the sessions recorded from 2015 include:

Year published: 2015

This May 2007 report evaluations the LiveHelp Pilot Project, live chat services for access to justice web site users.   Recommended Citation: Richard Zorza, LiveHelp Pilot Project: Chat Services for Access to Justice Web Site Users, Montana Legal Services Assoc. (May 2007).

Year published: 2007

Document Author: Richard Zorza

Presentation and paper delivered about the pilot LiveHelp projects during the 2007 Court Technology Conference (CTC10) by Kate Bladow, Liz Keith, Eve Ricaurte, and Richard Zorza. Please see the Project Evaluation for more information.

Year published: 2007

Document Author: Richard Zorza, Liz Keith, Eve Ricaurte, Kate Bladow

This one-page handout from a 2007 TIG conference discusses how LiveHelp works.

Year published: 2007

Power Point slide presentation put together by Richard Zorza on the technology challenges facing in court pro se programs. Presented June 5, 2000. Link to presentation: http://www.zorza.net/resources/prosetech/

Year published: 2000

Document Author: Richard Zorza

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Project on Program Simplification and Coordination conducts research and analysis on how benefit program rules can be simplified and better integrated across programs. The project also provides technical assistance to states and policy analysts interested in pursuing simplification and alignment strategies in their states.

Year published: 2005

Document Author: Liz Schott, Sharon Parrott

This Comment to the Federal Courts Rules Committee by Richard Zorza briefly outlines some of the risks in authorizing federal court mandated e-filing with respect to self-represented litigants, and suggests both that the issue of mandatory e-filing could be solved by creating a general exception for self-represented litigants and that the issue raises other broader possibilities for increasing access to justice.

Year published: 2005

Document Author: Richard Zorza

This Duke Law Journal article of 1999 discusses forming an attorney-client relationshship by giving legal advice and regulating legal advice in non-traditional contexts. Link to article: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&contex…

Year published: 1999

Document Author: Catherine J. Lanctot

This website is part of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section and provides a host of information on e-lawyering. http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=EP024500