Lawyers need new skills and core competencies to succeed in today’s technology-driven legal practice. Document assembly and automation tools are crucial to providing quality, economical legal services in this environment. Legal educators must ensure that new attorneys are familiar with the tools and professional techniques that are becoming standard in the modern law offices. These same law office automation tools can produce self-guided instructions and forms to help low income, self-represented people achieve access to justice.
The Access to Justice Clinical Course Project (A2J Clinic Project) is a coordinated effort between the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI®), the Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT®) at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Idaho Legal Aid Services. This project will produce three to five course kits created by law school clinics. We hope that these course kits will jump start the growth of future A2J Clinics and simultaneously deliver new automated content to legal aid websites across the country.
The mission of an A2J Clinic is two-fold: to introduce law students to the skills required by a 21st Century law office, and to produce A2J Guided Interviews® and other technical resources that statewide legal aid organizations can use to lower the barriers to justice for low-income people.
Participants include:
- Brian Donnelly, Conrad Johnson, and Mary Marsh Zulack, Columbia Law School;
- Sunrise Ayres, Greg Sergienko and Jodi Nafzger, Concordia University School of Law;
- Joe Rosenberg, CUNY School of Law;
- Jane Aiken, Tanina Rostain, and Roger Skalbeck, Georgetown University Law Center;
- Judith Welch Wegner, UNC School of Law;
- JoNel Newman and Melissa Swain, University of Miami School of Law.
For more information, click here.