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
Resource: WriteClearly.org Plain Language Library, Example Forms (WriteCleary)
The WriteClearly.org Plain Language Library was adapted by Transcend under a Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant (LSC TIG #9061). This resource provides a repository of example documents for a range of legal aid and court forms, including service agreements, retainer forms, small claims court forms, and more.
Document Author:
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc., WriteClearly.org
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
Article: Liberty, Justice, and Legal Automata (Lauritsen 2013)
This article, by Mark Lauritsen @marclauritsen, expands on the analysis begun by the author in a computer science journal piece called Are We Free To Code The Law? The focus there was whether interactive online services for legal self-helpers can be prohibited as the unauthorized practice of law. Put more generally, how should we legal automata be regulated? Do they serve justice? Are people at liberty to create and distribute them?
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Mark Lauritsen
News: Forms in Your Pocket: Mobile Solutions Are Nearly Ready to Scale (Pew Research Center 2016)
According to the Pew Research Center's Internet and Technology Mobile Fact Sheet (pewresearch.org), sixty-four percent of American adults own a smart phone (www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/), and legal aid organizations including Philadelphia Legal Assistance and Ayuda Legal Illinois report more than 30% of their online legal assistance users are on mobile devices when they do so.
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis
Resource: Technology Initiative Grants (LSC 2015)
Since 2000, when Congress first appropriated special funds for the Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) program, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has been a leader in the development and use of technology to more effectively meet the legal needs of low-income Americans.
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Legal Services Corporation
Resource: Equal Access Unit of the California Center for Families, Children & the Courts (Judicial Council of California 2015)
The Equal Access Unit of the Center for Families, Children & the Courts has materials available for courts, court-based self-help programs, and other nonprofit providers of legal self-help services.
The materials include sample instructional handouts developed by local courts, translations, brochures, program models, evaluation tools, and ideas for setting up a self-help center.
Background
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
California Judicial Council Center for Families Children & the Courts
Report: Report of the Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice (LSC 2013)
In 2012 and 2013, the Legal Services Corporation convened a national Technology Summit that brought together more than 75 representatives of legal aid programs, courts, government, and business as well as technology experts, academics, and private practitioners to explore the role of technology in expanding access to justice.
Year published:
2013
Document Author:
Legal Services Corporation
Weblinks: Technology Resources (SRLN 2015)
The following is a list of organizations geared toward technology/IT support in the non-profit and legal aid space. Inclusion does not reflect endorsement.
Idealware
Idealware, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, provides thoroughly researched, impartial and accessible resources about software to help nonprofits make smart technology decisions. Link: http://www.idealware.org/
Innovation Network
Year published:
2015
Document Author:
Self-Represented Litigation Network
Curriculum: SRLN Court Solutions Conference Leadership Package (SRLN 2008)
The Self-Represented Litigation Leadership Package was prepared by the Self-Represented Litigation Network and launched at the Court Solutions Conference on September 8-10, 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland. The core of the Package is fifteen modules, each of which focuses on a different area of self-represented litigation innovation. These Modules can be used in a wide variety of ways to encourage leadership in innovation.
Year published:
2008
Document Author:
Richard Zorza, Self-Represented Litigation Network