Course Library

Chapter 1

Technology and the Legal Aid Community»

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Technology and Private Practice»

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Alternative Applications for A2J Guided Interviews»

Ronald W. Staudt, White Paper: Leveraging Law Students and Technology to Meet the Legal Needs of Low-Income People (2007).

Ronald W. Staudt, Apps 4 Justice: Law Schools, Technology and Access to Justice (2010).

Explore the Illinois Legal Aid Online web site.

William Hornsby, Challenging the Academy to a Dual (Perspective): The Need to Embrace Lawyering for Personal Legal Services, Maryland Law Review (2011).

Phil Malone et al., Best Practices in the Use of Technology to Facilitate Access to Justice Initiatives, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2010).

Helen Gunnarsson, A Judge’s Persepctive on Pro Se Litigants, Illinois Bar Journal (June 2011).

Johnathan Jenkins, What Can Information Technology Do For the Law?, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2008).

Charles L. Owen, Ronald W. Staudt, and Edward B. Pedwell, Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants (2001).

Legal Services Corporation: What is LSC?, Types of Grants, TIGs Impact.

LegalAidKY video on “How to Use A2J Author”

NYCourtsA2J video on New York’s “Do-It-Yourself Forms”

Deborah J. Chase and Bonnie Rose Hough, A Report and Analysis of Action Plans Throughout California (2003).

TIG Grant No. 04537, Final Evaluation Report (2007).

HotDocs 10 Developer Installation Guide and Tutorial, Lesson 1

A2J Author® Authoring Guide, Chapter 1, Pages 1-9

All Inclusive A2J Guided Interview®

New York State Courts Access to Justice Program, Document Assembly Programs Best Practices Guide for Court System Development and Implementation Using A2J Author® (April 2011). Pay special attention to Part II: Programming Essentials, pages 13-21.

Jeff Hogue’s Plain Language Online Course: A Self Guided Learning Experience

Three CALI® lessons that illustrate and teach plain language principles.

Other training materials

Extra exercises and their solutions
Suggested Reading
Before and after example: client letter

To learn more about using plain language in developing A2J Guided Interviews® read the following articles and browse these websites

A Plain Language Handbook: Write For Your Reader, NWT Literacy Council: This handbook gives you the tools to write or edit your documents in plain language.
plainlanguage.gov: This site explores the plain language movement and offers examples, tips and tools including guidelines, a word suggestion list, before and after comparisons, and more.
The Center for Plain Language: This site provides information, guidelines and tips on communicating in plain language.
The Principles of Readability, DuBay, W. H. 2004: A short history of literacy studies in the U.S. and a short history of research in readability and the readability formulas.
WriteClearly.org: A website by Legal Assistance of Western New York (LawNY) that includes a collections of legal aid-focused plain language documents, online tools and other plain language resources.

Language Access and TIG Webinar (2012)

Darryl Mountain, Disrupting Conventional Law Firm Business Models Using Document Assembly (2006).

Marc Lauritsen, “Fall In Line with Document Assembly” (2006).

Stephanie Kimbro, Practicing Law Online; Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office (2010).

Richard Granat’s website, http://www.mylawyer.com.

Granat’s website discusses the unbundled legal service model with fixed pricing including several law firm examples. Also review this blog post and Granat’s Virtual Law Learning Center, which gathers links to a variety of excellent sources on elawyering.

Blog interview of Richard Granat by Jim Calloway focusing on the infusion of capital into online law services (2011).

Resource Guide: eLawyering and the Future of Legal Work by William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2010).

Darryl Mountain, Could New Technologies Cause Great Law Firms to Fail? (2001).

Rob Friedmann, The Business Case for Delivering Legal Advice Over the Web (2001).

Lawrence Cunningham, Language, Deals and Standards: The Future of XML Contracts (2006).

Gillian Hadfield, Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets (2008).

Will Hornsby, The Ethics of Client Development Through Technology (2010).

Will Hornsby, Professional Responsibility When Lawyering in a Virtual World (2008).

Catherine Lanctot, Attorney-Client Relationships in Cyberspace: The Peril and The Promise (1999).

Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Online Document Assembly Services (2010 Webinar).

Taiwo Oriola, The Use of Legal Software by Non-Lawyers and the Perils of Unauthorised Practice of Law Charges in the United States (2010).

Catherine Lanctot, Scriveners in Cyberspace: Online Document Preparation and the Unlicensed Practice of Law (2002).