Visions

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." 

In this section we present some of the latest thinking on the future of legal services.  Sometimes these writings will try to predict outcomes based on where we are now and where we appear to be headed.  More importantly, they will often put forth ideas about where we should be headed and how we might get there.   We encourage you not only to read these articles, but also to write your own and submit them for presentation here on our site.  We also encourage you to go to our discussion board and speak your mind about any of the issues we address here or any new ones that you think might be of interest.   And now here are the ideas:

• Training Infrastructure for the Future of Equal Justice: the draft report of the Training Resources and Information Network.
  By Gerry Singsen and Shari Dunn Buron

• The Airlie Papers on Technology and the Future of Legal Services: Seventeen papers written by professionals from legal services and the public and private sectors take on the hard questions.

• The  Project for the Future's "discussion draft" paper: Comprehensive, Integrated Statewide System for the Provision of Civil Legal Assistance to Low Income Persons to Secure Equal Justice for All.  Read and comment on this aspirational outline for the future of the equal justice movement in this country.

• "Can Legal Services Achieve Equal Justice_"
  By Alan Houseman

• "Devolution: The Legal Services Response."
  By Alan Houseman

• "Extranets: Creating the Collaborative Legal Services Program"
  By Richard Granat

• "From Legal Services to Information Services"
  By Richard Granat

• Explore some of the ethical issues of the changing legal system.

• Join our online discussion about the ideas in these articles.

• Share your vision, large or small, for the future of equal justice.  Submit your article for publication here to our editor .  (An e-mail attachment in rich text format (rtf) would make our job easier.)

• Give us your feedback about how we can best use this site to work for the future of equal justice in this country.

 

A number of these papers are available in both pdf and html formats.  To view or download the pdf documents you will need Acrobat Reader.   If you don't have it on your computer, you can download if from Adobe for free.