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Integrating the ABA Futures Report and the Justice For All Components
Its finally here, the ABA Future of Legal Services Report. As expected, it covers a lot of ground, and is a lot to read. As an aid to speedy integration into other projects, I have prepared this table...
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On Waking Up From a Nightmare that was About Trying to E-File in the Supreme...
I just woke up this morning in a panic from a nightmare that would be funny if it were not so scary. There I am in the dream trying to e-file a pleading with the Supreme Court. Naturally it is very...
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DOJ and FTC Weigh In on Exempting Websites from the Practice of Law
On June 16 of this year, North Carolina passed a law creating a limited carve-out from the definition of the practice of law for websites that met certain requirements. The bill is here. There has...
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New York Times Highlights Access to Justice, the Self-Represented, Technology...
In a recent Year of Big Ideas in Social Change piece, the Times highlights almost the full area of what we all do: Another example [of using tech to democratize] is civil legal aid. Even though people...
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The New HHS Child Support Regs Will Increase Child Support Payments and...
There is additional good news in the new HHS Child Support regs, which are to be effective Jan 19, 2017 (analysis and link to full text of regs here). They will increase payments to custodial parents,...
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SRLN Announces Forms Competition
The SRLN Forms & Technology Working Group is holding its first ever Civil Legal Problems Forms Contest. There are two categories in the competition: Best Static Form Best Automated Form This is a...
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Guest Blogger Claudia Johnson: What I’ve learned in the past 9 years of...
What I’ve learned in the past 9 years of helping legal aid, courts, and other non-profits create online forms to promote Access for All Claudia C. Johnson* While working across the U.S. in supporting...
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National Academy Report On Need for Strategy to Understand Impact of...
As reported in the New York Times, and elaborated in Nature, a panel of the National Academies has called for a national approach to data to understand and manage the impact of technology on the...
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Google Home May Help Us Understand the Definition of “Legal Advice,” and...
This is sort of fun. We have been struggling now for over two decades to find the most useful and access-expanding ways of explaining when an interaction is the giving of information, not generally...
View ArticleThoughts on the Shriver Study
It is now several months since the California Shriver Pilot Report was issued. The findings and recommendations concerning benefits of counsel have been widely disseminated. (Report announcement...
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