Legal tech is a hot topic in legal education today. Learn how legal aid organizations and courts have partnered with law schools to teach future lawyers about important access to justice issues and give them hands on experience creating expert systems for self-represented litigants.
Harnessing the technical skills of law students to automate court forms, legal documents, and legal processes will increase the number of people that legal aid organizations and courts can serve. The ability to complete legal documents online amplifies limited legal resources and opens up the legal process to more people. By the end of the session, participants will learn how easy it is to partner with a law school in order to automate a court document, legal form, or legal process for their client populations using A2J Author, HotDocs, or other document assembly platforms. Participants will learn about the resources in place to automate, host, and maintain a catalog of online forms to better serve their end users. Participants will learn how to post projects for law schools to choose from.
The session will include faculty who have taught document automation courses in a variety of law schools with several different document automation tools. They will give background to their course projects and explain how the law school courses and legal partnerships are supported by various non-profit organizations like LSC, CALI, and ProBonoNet. This presentation format will allow the audience to get a broad overview of law school document assembly projects and how they are impacting the justice gap.
