SRLN 2021 Forms Competition
A giant congratulations to our SRLN 2021 Forms Competition Winners!
Automated Forms Category: UMKC School of Law, Bloch Law Library
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
SRLN
SRLN 2017 Forms Competition
2017 SRLN Forms & Technology Working Group -- Best Forms Contest
The SRLN Forms & Technology Working Group held its first ever Best Forms Contest, taking entries in two categories, Best Static Form and Best Automated Form.
All forms must be for civil legal problems.
Submissions for Best Static Form was judged for:
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
Resource: Document Assembly: An Essential Building Block for the Access to Justice Ecosystem (LHI 2016)
LawHelp Interactive (LHI) is a national online document assembly platform that allows people representing themselves to prepare their own legal documents and pleadings online for free.[1] It is also used by legal aid advocates, pro bono attorneys, and court systems seeking to work more efficiently and develop new approaches to service delivery.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Claudia Johnson
SRLN Brief: Examples of LHI Driven Partnerships (ProBonoNet 2016)
In addition to offering a platform for document assembly, the LHI project has been the catalyst to many significant court, legal aid and community partnerships. Below is a summary of just a few game changing partnerships.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Pro Bono Net
News: Orange County, CA and the State of Texas Conduct User Experience Research and Learn that SRLs in Civil Cases Can E-File (Texas & California 2016)
What are we learning about self-represented litigants who e-file? Who are they? Where are they? What cases do they file? How do the tools work for them?
Using identical survey instruments, the Superior Court in Orange County and the Texas Office of Court Administration (Texas AOC) gathered valuable e-filing insights into these questions for both represented and self-represented parties, and presented their findings at CTC2015.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
News, SRLN
Best Practices: Document Assembly Programs Best Practices Guide for Court System Development and Implementation Using A2J Author (New York 2017)
Beginning in 2005, the New York State courts began developing Document Assembly Programs for use in its Help Centers using A2J Author for the front-end, HotDocs software for the back-end, and LawHelp Interactive server to host the programs. By 2009, this pilot had been deployed statewide and the Access to Justice Program was able to identify the best practices that would likely be effective and generally worthy of replication for court systems.
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Rochelle Klempner, New York State Courts Access to Justice Program
News: New York Combines Technology, Partners and Re-Engineering Reducing Court Time for DV Victims to Less Than an Hour and Saving Clerks 30 Minutes per File (New York 2015)
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis, News
Report: Making Self-Help Work: Bet Tzedek’s Conservatorship Clinic (Bet Tzedek 2013)
Since 2007, Bet Tzedek Legal Services has been running a self-help conservatorship clinic in partnership with the Los Angeles Superior Court. Originally designed to serve 150 self-represented litigants per year, the program served more than 1,400 self-represented litigants by 2012, which amounts to more than 40 percent of all new conservatorship filings in the county.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Weblinks: Efficiencies and Innovation in California (Judicial Branch of California 2015)
On its webpage entitled, Efficiencies & Innovations (courts.ca.gov), the The California judicial branch, which is widely acknowledged as a national leader in developing and implementing programs that enhance access to justice, provides information and links to numerous initiatives have been implemented statewide and at individual trial courts to ensure that public service is delivered effectively and efficiently for the benefit of court users.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Judicial Branch of California
SRLN Brief: LHI Document Assembly (SRLN 2015)
LawHelp Interactive was developed to make implementing document assembly initiatives easier and less costly for legal aid organizations as well as pro bono and court-based access-to-justice programs. Participating programs use HotDocs Corporation's HotDocs Professional, and optionally the Center for Access to Justice and Technology's A2J Author, to create online forms and documents.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network