Report: Better Access Through Unbundling Post-Conference Report (IAALS 2018)
On October 26 - 27, 2017, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), in partnership with the American Bar Association (ABA) hosted the Better Access through Unbundling: from Ideation to Implementation Conference. IAALS published the post-conference report on August 16, 2018. The below excerpt introduces the report.
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
Natalie A. Knowlton, IAALS
Website: IAALS Honoring Families Initiative (IAALS)
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System Honoring Families Initiative is a project aimed at promoting new approaches to improve outcomes in legal issues related to divorce, separation, and custody.
Visit the IAALS Honoring Families Initiative homepage for more information.
Document Author:
IAALS
Pakistan’s New Legal Incubator Expands ATJ and Promotes Legal Entrepreneurship (News 2016)
Law school incubators continue to lead the way in teaching young lawyers to build a legal career around principles of access to justice, client centered business practices and encouraging legal entrepreneurship that views the lawyer as part of a larger ecosystem of legal and non-legal providers, which include legal self-help, legal information, legal advice and practical support.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis, SRLN, News
News: VA Legal Aid Society's New Online Triage System Dramatically Realigns Staff Resources to Increase Service to Eligible Clients (VA Legal Aid 2016)
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis, News, SRLN
Pittsburgh Court Doubles the Number of Self-Represented Litigants Served In First Three Months With No-Cost Reengineering Initiative (News 2016)
In Pittsburgh, reengineering was the key to serving Self-Represented Litigants (SRLs), resulting in the opening of the court’s Family Division Self-Help Center (SHC), which doubled the number of customers served while offering a more sophisticated set of services than the courts had previously. The total cost to the court of opening the center?
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis, SRLN
Article: Access to Justice and Technology Clinics: A 4% Solution (Staudt & Medeiros 2013)
In recent years, project-based clinics, based around the long-standing Justice and Technology Practicum course offered at IIT Chicago-Kent, have emerged that focus on teaching students how to use and implement technology to assist low-income people.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Ronald W. Staudt, Andrew P. Medeiros
Article: Law School Firms and Incubators and the Role of the Academic Law Library (Desai 2013)
According to the abstract, this article examines the recently developed postgraduate, law-school-supported programs intended to provide recent graduates with a continued experiential learning environment in order to bridge the gap between law school and law practice. Both law school firms and practice incubators are discussed. Specifically, this article looks at what, if any, role academic law libraries have within these programs. Lastly, ways in which these libraries might possibly add or improve services to the programs are explored.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Sonal Desai