Access to Justice and TechnologyRonald W. Staudt

Class 3: The Supply: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People

Guest: Lisa Colpoys, Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Center for Law and Public Interest

September 9, 2004

September 9- logistics

September 20 (Monday) -- Web exercise and paper topics dueSeptember 16th –no class for holidaySeptember 23rd – site visits/reports in place of scheduled class Visit LAFMC, Cook County Advice Desk;

CARPLS; Prairie State…reports 9/30

Next Class, Thursday September 30, Site Visits and reports must be done before this class.

Alan Houseman, Access to Justice Conference September 11, 2001: Civil Legal Assistance for Low-Income Persons: Looking Back and Looking Forward, LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1213  (2002)

Explore the Legal Services Corporation website: www.lsc.gov

Today’s Session: Legal Services Delivery Systems for Low Income People

Alan Houseman, Access to Justice Conference September 11, 2001: Civil Legal Assistance for Low-Income Persons: Looking Back and Looking Forward, LexisNexis™ 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1213  (2002)

Lisa Colpoys: Cook County Hot Line Experience; Leadership of the ITC, a collaboration of “supply” organizations

Discuss Paper topics and site visits

LSC Act of 1974:Five Fundamental Objectives

1. continuing the "present vital legal services program"; 2. ensuring "equal access" to our system of justice "for

individuals who seek a redress of grievances";3. providing "high quality legal assistance to those who

would be otherwise unable to afford adequate legal counsel";

4. keeping the legal services program "free from the influence of or use by it of political pressures,"

5. assuring that "attorneys providing legal assistance ... have full freedom to protect the best   interests of their clients in keeping with the [ethics codes] ... and the high standards of the legal profession."

New Plans/ New Methods of Delivery

Coordinated service delivery- one state systemCoordinated Advice and Brief ServicesAccessible intake systemsGateways to State Civil Legal Assistance Systems

TIG grants and Internet tools…

Civil Legal Aid in the United States:An Overview of the Program in 2003By Alan W. HousemanSeptember 2003

Sources of legal services

www.illinoisprobono.org