Sunday, March 18, 2012

Mar 23/Web: Online Legal Forms in Legal Aid. #TDLP Week 7!

Topics In Digital Law Practice (TDLP) takes a new approach to legal education: a nine-session webinar inviting participant interaction and collaboration, open to any person anywhere, developed for law faculty and students, but of utility to lawyers and technologists as well.
Title:
Online Legal Forms in Legal Aid: Week 7 of Topics In Digital Law Practice
Date/Time/Place: 
Friday, March 23, 2012
2pm-3pm Eastern (Note Time Zone!)
Webcast With Homework
Register Here!
Can't participate live? Recording will be posted at the same link within a day or two. 
Ronald W. Staudt
Speaker:
Professor Ronald W. Staudt is the associate vice president of law, business and technology and a professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He teaches Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Strategies, Internet Law, Public Interest Law & Policy, Justice and Technology Practicum, and Access to Justice and Technology. He is director of the Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT)--a law school center using Internet resources to improve access to justice with special emphasis on building Web tools to support legal services advocates, pro bono volunteers and pro se litigants. Current CAJT projects include the law school's Public Interest Certificate program; A2J Author, a collaboration with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction to build new computer interfaces for self-represented litigants; and the Self-Help Web Center at the Cook County Courthouse in the Daley Center, where law student volunteers help self-represented litigants to use technology tools developed at CAJT.
Professor Staudt has written numerous articles and books on technology and law. His most recent book is a report co-authored by Charles L. Owen, Distinguished Professor of Design at IIT's Institute of Design, and Edward B. Pedwell, titled Access to Justice: Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants.
Professor Staudt is a fellow, board member and vice president of the College of Law Practice Management, a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section's E-Lawyering Task Force, a member of the advisory council of the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and a member of the ABA TechShow 2006 Planning Board.

Credit:
The hosts have not applied for CLE credit; however attorneys have successfully applied for credit for some sessions in some states, e.g. Washington.
The TDLP series runs for one hour a week for nine weeks and will feature a different guest speaker each week. Each class will be delivered via webcast and will have a 30 minute lecture presentation followed by a question & answer period and an online, interactive homework assignment for all course students to complete.
The presentations will be recorded and posted to the course blog. Cost:
Free.
Registration:
Register for the course.
Host:
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of over 200 US law schools. Non-US law schools, law firms, business schools, paralegal programs and individuals can also join CALI to support its mission. More information about CALI membership: http://www.cali.org/faq/8054. 
More:
Please see this FAQ if you have more questions about the course.

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