AGENDA – HOTLINE AND PRO SE AND TECHNOLOGY

Day Three: Friday, September 19,1997

 

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7
7:30 -8:30 AM Registration for new arrivals

Coffee/breakfast

8:30-9:00 AM PLENARY: A vision of a virtual integrated legal delivery system by 2005
9:00-10:30 AM Technology - Sharing Expertise Demonstration (IIB)

Linking advocate to programs

Linking advocates and programs within a state

Supporting volunteers, paralegals and part timers

Adjusting to change: training and Tech support

Hotline - Setting the Framework

Over view of hotline concept

Basic operations of several models

Brief cost analysis

Pro Se - Defining the Changing Role of Pro Se

National Showcase of pro se models and materials

BREAK 10:30-10:50 AM
10:50 - 12:30 AM Tech Building Block IB

telecommunications

e-mail,

Internet

WWW,

Intranets

Tech Building Block IA

Phone systems

Voice mail

Teleconferencing strategies

**************Unbundled legal services -how far can we go? Ethics

Question # 2

Hotline

LSC issues

Round tables on basic operations by experience (staffing issues)

Ethics Q#3 & 4 (30 min)

Pro Se

More models

Stewardship issues

Ethics Q#3 (30min)

12:30-1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:00 PM Technology - Improving Productivity Demonstration (IIA)

-automated document assembly

-brief banks/knowledge bases

case management and docketing

legal research

Cross-currents - Specialized Access to Legal Services via technology, hotline and pro se IIIA

Demonstrations of hotline technology and overview of intake software, Pro Se technology applications (kiosks, Internet) and integrated intake.

BREAK 3:00-3:30 PM
3:30-5:15 PM Tech Building Block IG

Local Area networks

Wide area networks

Technology

Building Block E

Kiosks

Multimedia technologies

Tech Building Block IH

workstations and implications of more speed, palmtops laptops, "bloatware"

Tech Building Block IC

Groupware

"team" computing

Technology Building Block D

Document assembly

Technology Building Block F

CD-ROM

Knowledge base systems

**************Integrating Compensated Services into Legal Services Cross-currents - Who Are We Serving ? - Matching Systems to Constituencies and Case Types

-When are hotlines the answer and when are they not?

-Pro Se programs - who and which case types do they serve best?

-Designing an integrated delivery system for your client base

5:15-6:00 PM Plenary on Funding Resources (focus on cross-cutting sources or funding for integrated systems and funding for staff training)

 

 

AGENDA – HOTLINE AND PRO SE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Day Four: Saturday, September 20,1997

 

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7
8:00 - 8:30 AM

Coffee/Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 AM Tech Building Block IG

Local Area networks

Wide area networks

Technology

Building Block E

Kiosks

Multimedia technologies

Tech Building Block IH

workstations and implications of more speed, palmtops laptops, "bloatware"

Tech Building Block IC

Groupware

"team" computing

Technology Building Block D

Document assembly

Technology Building Block F

CD-ROM

Knowledge base systems

Cross-currents -Outreach Offices in the Age of Technology IIIB

Can we afford the administrative costs of maintaining the outlying offices?

Will we see attorney tele-commuting for extended service delivery in outlying areas?

Will we see video-conferenced pro se classes with local facilitators? Or video-conferenced intake ? (FL Rural demo)

How far can and should we push efficiency?

What are the costs to staff, to clients, to LS visibility to the courts, bar and community?

Pro Se

Nuts & Bolts: Setting up a System Part 1 - broken by experience levels or other interest areas into small groups (purpose, planning, budgeting, time frame, collaboration, publicity)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

BREAK with light energy snacks

10:30-11:20 AM Funding Sources for Technology IIIC Cross-currents -Managing Technology: Tips for mastering the techno-babble IIID

-How to build on your expertise as a Tech User

-Working with technical staff/consultants

-How to be a good consumer of technology

****************What Do the Evolving Delivery Systems Mean for Pro Bono?

-Unbundling and Pro Bono

-Tech Support as a Pro Bono Contribution

Hotline - Special Issue Roundtables

Conversion

Multilingual hotlines Special populations

Evaluations- impact of hotlines upon programs

Funding sources

Pro Se

Nuts & Bolts: Setting up a System Part 2

Ethics Q #5

11:30-12:15 PM Using Technology For Program Resource Development IIC Repeat Session Funding Sources for Technology *********************************

Recruiting New Delivery System Partners

Panel and discussion on potential partners with the pros and cons of unusual partnerships highlighted

Hotline - Quality Control

Ethics Q#1 & 2(30 min)

The Future of Pro Se and Technology

Electronic filing

(Pima County, John Greacen NM courts)

Web pages with materials and links to other sources

12:15-1:00 PM

Closing Plenary

Revisit the themes

Political Implications

Future Networking