Headlines (click on any one to learn
more):
-- Human Services Newsfeed
-- Links, Links, Links
-- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
-- On-line
Training Materials
-- Songs of Affirmative
Litigation
-- Hotline Outcomes
Assessment Phase II pretest
-- First Year
Report of the New England Regional Training Consortium
-- Input sought for a
national indexing system for legal advocacy materials and a national client
information menu
-- Seven
New Innovations
and Ideas from Legal Services Websites
-- NLADA Offers
Interactive Courtroom to Members
-- Information
Management Advisory Group Discussion of XML for Legal Services
-- Hotline
Outcomes Assessment Study Available
-- LEXIS
Extends Offer to LSC programs and NLADA members
Details and links:
Human
Services Newsfeed:
The Project website now has a newsfeed,
updated daily by HandsNet, that provides
current news from the Human Services community.
Links:
With the addition of Hawai'i, our links
page now includes legal services organizations in forty-three states and
the District of Columbia. What's with those other seven states, anyhow? Or,
are we just missing their websites? If you know of a site we're missing, let
us know. Send an e-mail.
Jobs:
Our jobs pages continue to get lots of postings
from employers. Look there for quality jobs in the legal services community.
In March there were forty-five new jobs posted from twenty-one states. They
ranged from legal secretary to four executive director positions. Our jobs
home page was visited more than two thousand times. Some of the larger state
pages (NY and CA) were visited more than five hundred times each.
On-Line
Training Materials: The New England Regional Training Consortium
has posted training materials for
Basic Lawyer Skills Training, Administrative Hearing Skills Training, Client
Board Training, and Stress Management Training in their section of our
website. These materials are in a format that can be followed step by step to
reproduce the training program. Check back for the Affirmative Litigation
(formerly Fed Lit) materials, which should be posted soon. It is hoped that
this effort will lead to a national exchange of high quality, easily
replicable training materials within the legal services community.
Songs of
Affirmative Litigation: Perhaps the New England Regional Training
Consortium has gone a little overboard with their Songs of Affirmative
Litigation, but find out more about what
they are dong and their exciting collaboration with NLADA in an effort to
revitalize training in the legal services community.
Hotline Outcomes
Assessment:
Do hotline clients understand the advice they are given? Do theyfollow up on it? Do they ever realize any satisfactory resolution of
their problems.
The latest report in the Hotline Outcomes
Assessment Study makes recommendations for a full-scale study of client
outcomes, as well as some intriguing preliminary findings. For a summary of
the Pre-test Report, click here. To
download the full text of the Pre-test Report in pdf format, click
here.
New
England Regional Training Consortium: The New England Regional
Training Committee has accomplished a great deal in its first year. Click
here to read about the Consortium's activities, plans and vision in its First
Year Report. The Consortium wants to serve as a model for resurrecting regional training
capacity. Click here
to learn more about the Consortium and to check in on what the Committee is
doing, or read the minutes of its July meeting.
A
National Index: As a result of a meeting convened
by the Open Society Institute in June, a group including consultant
Richard Zorza, representatives of the Project for the Future of Equal
Justice, ProBono.net, the Legal Services Corporation, and the National
Center for Poverty Law have been starting to build the structure for a
national database of advocacy materials and a national system of client
access to legal information. They ask help from the legal services
community in ensuring that these indexing systems are complete and
workable. Click
here to take a look, AND PLEASE give them some feedback
in your areas of expertise.
Innovations
and Ideas from Legal Services Websites: We
have added seven new ideas, and now have three pages full of new and innovative ideas
from legal services websites. Click here
to see what some legal services and pro bono programs are doing to enhance
their work through use of the internet.
NLADA
Offers PLI Interactive Courtroom to Members:
The Practicing Law Institute has agreed to make available the Interactive
Courtroom trial skills training disks to NLADA member organizations for
fifty dollars per disk. (Disks usually cost $295 each.) Click
here for details and reviews of eight of the twelve disks.
Information
Management Advisory Group Discusses XML: At
its January meeting IMAG heard a presentation by former legal services
lawyer Todd Vincent, who now heads the legal XML working group and the
Georgia electronic filing project. IMAG also discussed many aspects of the
emerging "concept of the two portals." Click
here for the minutes of the January meeting. Click
here for a more general discussion of IMAG and its work.
Hotline
Outcomes Assessment Study Available: Phase 1 of
the Hotline Outcomes Assessment Study has been completed and is available
as a .pdf Document. (You will need a .pdf reader such as Adobe Acrobat
Reader to view, download or print the document.) Click
here to get the 40+ page .pdf Document. Click
here to get Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe website. Click
here to visit our Hotline section.
Lexis Extends
Offer to LSC programs and NLADA Members: The
LEXIS Corporation has announced special pricing for LEXIS on-line research
for programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation and for NLADA member
organizations. Click here for pricing and
details. This is a great opportunity for legal services organizations. Click
here to e-mail a thank you note to Glenn Rawdon at LSC..
