The objective of this project is to expand access
to justice for self represented litigants (SRLs). This project
builds on the insights and the design prototype from the Meeting
the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants: A Consumer Based Approach
(Meeting the Needs) project, and adds the expertise and
experience of the Center
for Computer Aided Legal Instruction (CALI) significantly
to enhance self-represented litigants access to the courts. This
project will build, test and disseminate a key missing piece of
the toolkit for delivering Web-assisted court forms to SRLs –
Access to Justice Author (A2J Author).
The primary objectives of this project are:
To build an authoring tool that allows non-technical
personnel from courts and legal service providers rapidly
to author and to implement customer friendly interfaces that
provide pro se users with guided support for very specific
legal problems;
To demonstrate the tool by building five
new pro se assisting systems in collaboration with court and
legal service personnel in California (California AOC and
Contra Costa County Courts) and Illinois (Illinois Technology
Center for Law and Public Interest and the Cook and Lake County
Courts); and,
