Welcome to Texas ATJ Tech Center

Unbundled Legal Services in the New Normal Virtual Conference

April 20, 2021, to April 22, 2021
Sessions will be held each day from 12–3 p.m. MDT.

IAALS, The Chicago Bar Foundation, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) are hosting a three-day virtual event that will focus on the major hows and whys of supporting and implementing the practice of unbundled legal services both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sessions will offer content relevant to members of the private bar, legal aid, and those involved with court-annexed projects. This conference will provide an opportunity for attendees to discuss concerns, share success stories, and explore new ideas with colleagues and peers.

Registration is free and open below. CLE credits will be available.

Sessions include:

Unbundling 2.0—The Business Case and Opportunities
How Legal Tech Supercharges Unbundling
Update on Ethics Issues in Unbundling
Unbundling and the Courts
New Frontiers in Unbundling
A chance to meet and mingle via drop-in Zoom rooms
Session details and presenter information coming soon.

For more information, please contact Janet Drobinske, senior legal assistant, at janet.drobinske@du.edu .

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Aging Safely – RESOURCES FOR ADVOCATES | “Pro Bono Net and the Center for Elder Law & Justice have partnered to create a webinar series and two companion Toolkits to help senior-serving organizations adopt the Aging Safely online forms powered by LawHelp Interactive, and to learn how to build and implement a successful Legal Risk Detector-powered program in your community. Watch the webinar series and download the Toolkits.”

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Texas Disaster Legal Help Intake Form is a joint project of Texas Legal Aid partners. Legal Aid is a nationwide network of nonprofit law firms that provides free legal services to eligible low-income individuals and families. The intake form at the Texas Disaster Legal Help will guide users through a series of questions about their legal problem. Along the way, they will get free information and a summary of the interview at the end.
– Texas Disaster Legal Help can connect users with free legal services if they qualify.
– Texas Disaster Legal Help is free to all users.

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The Access to Justice Tech Fellowship Program is designed to identify and equip the next generation of civil justice leaders to ensure equitable access to justice for all. “The ATJ Tech Fellows program provides law students a dynamic learning experience that merges interdisciplinary skills training with practical experience.
At the intersection of access to justice and innovation, law students spend the summer developing innovative projects and initiatives aimed to improve our civil justice system.
Law students gain exposure to the varied uses of technology, data, and design in delivering legal services and develop a deep understanding of the systemic barriers that prevent marginalized communities from receiving adequate legal services.”

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LegaltechHub is where legal professionals find the right resources, anywhere in the world. About: “Legaltech Hub is the global information portal for commercial legal professionals. Here, you will find tools help make your team, department or firm more effective, resources to keep you informed and educated, and opportunities to liaise with your peers in the industry. We deliberately set out to create a useful resource [for] professionals working in the commercial legal space, both in-house and in practice. That focus informs the content you will find [on the site.]”

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50+ Surprising Stats on Remote Work ‍Burnout: A comprehensive report on the high prevalence of “burnout” among work-from-home professionals and remote workers at this time of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Mentimeter: Create interactive presentations & meetings, wherever you are. Get real-time input from remote teams and online students with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As, and more

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Legal Server is a Case management software empowering attorneys; “LegalServer is a configurable web-based platform that dynamically responds to the complex, rapidly changing challenges of providing quality, effective advocacy. Whether it is collecting important case data, measuring goals, outcomes and financial benefits, or easily capturing emails, documents and case activities, LegalServer is a tool that helps advocates effectively manage their caseloads.”

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A2J Author’s July 2020 webinar featured guest speakers from Lone Star Legal Aid (www.lonestarlegal.org) discussing their Texas Eviction HELP Project. Luigi Bai, Lauren Figaro, April Williams, and Andrea Martinez discuss the tools they use to manage their document assembly project, including Google Docs, Miro, and A2J Author. This project uses A2J Author to create an A2J Guided Interview with an A2J Document Assembly Tool (A2J DAT) Template that produces the information and forms necessary for a tenant to defend themselves against an eviction in the era of COVID19. It is hosted on CALI’s A2J.org website. A2J Author Project Manager Jessica Frank moderates the presentation.

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“Texas Disaster Legal Help (TDLH) is a collaboration between the three largest legal aid organizations in Texas – Lone Star Legal Aid, Legal Aid of Northwest Texas, and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid – designed to improve the mobilization of pro bono volunteers during and in the immediate aftermath of a disaster; leveraging technology to meet legal needs in emergencies more effectively.

[TLDH] worked together to create a Pro Bono Portal (Portal) dedicated to connecting pro bono volunteers to educational materials, training, and volunteer opportunities. Through the Portal, volunteers can view tailored resources, review and accept cases statewide, sign up for ongoing training opportunities, track case time and CLE credits, access helpful templates, and conduct other case work.”

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mobiReady is a free online testing tool for website mobile compatibility. Website offers analysis of how well your site performs across various mobile devices and recommendations for improvements.

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In light of the current eviction crisis, BrieflyStudios is offering a special emergency package to help legal aid organizations and courts quickly create eviction-related content to help address the massive need.

BrieflyStudios produces multimedia content for legal services organizations and courts. Videos are used to educate client communities and SRLs, train pro bono lawyers, streamline operations, etc.

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Contributed by: Cathryn Ibarra

LSNTAP webinar: This intro level security class is focused specifically on remote working and protecting your client’s confidentiality and your organization’s security. Since we have all moved online, hackers and scammers are targeting this new set of remote workers.

In this webinar you’ll learn about:

· Common scams
· VPN and other private remote networks
· How to respond to a data breach
· Password management
· Encryption options

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Contributed by: Cathryn Ibarra

LSNTAP webinar on quickly and cost-effectively creating online content. Includes tips from people both in and out of legal aid that have been running webinars, creating YouTube videos, or working with Facebook streams.

Speakers:

Shelly Saves the Day – YouTuber with 33,000 fans and Organizer of the Seattle YouTube Creator Day

Daniel Ediger Public Legal Education Content Editor | www.WashingtonLawHelp.org Attorney | Northwest Justice Project

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An LSNTAP webinar looking at common tools for digital signatures and scanning from your phone or at home. Tools include: DocuSign, Panda Doc, Hello Sign, Adobe Sign, Microsoft Lens, Google Drive, home scanners, and more.

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Contributed by: Cathryn Ibarra

Base Camp is a real-time communication tool that helps teams work together remotely.

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Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work.

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Monday.com is a project management tool that enables organizations to manage tasks, projects, and team work.

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DocHub is an online resource to edit, send, and sign PDF documents online. Free and paid plans.

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DocuSign allows users to electronically sign and send documents. Free trial then paid subscription.

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WAVE tool is a free resource to check a site for accessibility- users can use their site or install an extension. “WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.”

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Contributed by: Courtney Wyrtzen

Zoom Discount Program outlines resources for Zoom, an online video and web conferencing tool. Free license for individuals (limited to 40-minute meetings and up to 100 participants), Additional resources: Daily Live Training; Zoom’s 90 day Security Progress Report (as of May 13).

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Contributed by: Carlton Whitmore

GoToMeeting & GoToWebinar – Emergency Remote Work Toolkit offers a free 3-month subscription for Health Care Providers, Educational Institutions, Municipalities and Non-Profit organizations to GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar during COVID-19 pandemic.

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Slack: ResourcesforLegal includes channels about a lot of different types of software — Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, Electronic Signatures, Document Automation, Scanning, etc. Not designed for non-profits specifically, but attorneys more broadly.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

Slack: A2J Tech & Design Collaborative includes discussion on concepts, Asks and Offers, data, research and more.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

Tech Soup has compiled a resource containing free organizational policy templates including a Remote Work Policy and Agreement, Pandemic Planning Policy, Information Security Policy Templates, and more.

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1Password is a place for users to store various passwords, software licenses, and other sensitive information in a virtual vault that is locked with a PBKDF2-guarded master password.

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RingCentral is an all in one platform for collaboration and communication. Free 90-day nonprofit license for COVID-19 Response (All healthcare providers, schools (K-12), community colleges, news and media, public sector, and nonprofit organizations who are new customers and impacted by COVID-19 get free access to RingCentral Office. This includes 200 participants per video meeting. Existing Office Essential and Standard customers can also benefit from an increased meeting participant limit.)

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LastPass is a freemium password manager that stores encrypted passwords online. The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes plugins for various web browsers and apps for many smartphones.

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Contributed by: Courtney Wyrtzen

Legaler is a videoconferencing tool designed specifically for lawyers, and it’s offering free access to its platform during the pandemic. Tagline: “Schedule, host and archive your online meetings in one place, securely.”

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EIE legal app provides encrypted mobile communication that users control. Users can confidently share confidential texts, notes, photos Microsoft Office and PDF documents.

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JurisMS is a mobile app designed for lawyers that provides encrypted text messaging and creates a record of all conversations. Currently this application is listed as “coming soon” on their website.

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Trello is an online Kanban board (think virtual post-it note board) that is invaluable if you have projects that are comprised of numerous discrete tasks with updates that you need to keep track of.  You can use up to 10 boards for free.  For each project card, you can assign it to members of your team, set up checklists & due dates, and add attachments.  Comments can be added to a card and a specific person tagged to see it.  You can also set up due dates to automatically populate on a GoogleCalendar.

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Microsoft Help for Nonprofits is the destination to reach a Microsoft representative with questions related to eligibility, accessing offers in the Nonprofit Portal or technical support in the Nonprofit Portal.

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Contributed by: Carlton Whitmore

Legal Tech Institute Tutorial Videos and On-Demand CLE offers tutorial videos on digital legal research, Microsoft Word and Excel for Legal Work, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and other legal tech topics from the law librarians and guest speakers at the Harris County Law Library.

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Tech for Social Impact: Microsoft COVID-19 Resource Guide for Nonprofits offers a one-sheet review of services, technology solutions, and trainings to help organizations in challenging times.

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Office 365 for Nonprofits provides free E1 Licenses for nonprofits. Web versions of Office and full versions of Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, 50gb mailbox users offered for free. Discounts on additional levels of licensing. 

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GSuite for Nonprofits is available for qualifying nonprofit organizations and allows access to the basic Gsuite business package for free, which can be accessed from anywhere there is internet (including through smartphone apps). This comes with Gmail (with a customized domain name); GoogleDocs; GoogleSheet; GoogleDrive; GoogleCalender, Google Hangouts Chat; etc.  You also have access to the G Suite Marketplace for apps, where you can use a variety of tools like Trello for free.  Google Meet is included. Compared to personal accounts, there is more space and better security.  Importantly, the accounts belong to the organization and not the individual. 

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Spiceworks Community offers free forums for IT support and professionals. Millions of existing members comment and respond to various help requests ranging from “how to configure specific printer settings” to “what type of VOIP setting should I get in this situation” and more.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

TechSoup offers lots of free or discounted tech licenses, equipment, and services. They also run webinars and networking events.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

LSNTAP is a great national resource for tech questions, comments, and troubleshooting. Many IT directors around the country are part of the listserv and lots of people can benefit from their free webinars. Check out their recorded webinars on YouTube.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

Formerly known as the Nonprofit Technology Education Network, they work towards connecting technology staff among various nonprofits, not just in the legal services sector. They offer conferences, listservs, and more to share resources and issues among nonprofits.

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Contributed by: Michael Hofrichter

LSNTAP webinar: Email communication was never conceived to be the center of our digital lives, hence it wasn’t created with security in mind. Today it is an essential part of business communication. Everyday sensitive and confidential information traverses the Internet and other unsecured networks where it may be intercepted or read.

Microsoft Office 365 service has been improved by providing multiple methods to encrypt your email, including OME (Office Message Encryption), S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail), IRM (Information Rights Management) and TLS (Transport Layer Security).
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All of these tools ensure your messages are only seen by the intended recipient. In this session, we will take a high-level look at these technologies and provide an in-depth look at the OME method which can help ensure the privacy of mail transmission.

Presenter: Rajesh Shah – Just Tech

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Contributed by: Cathryn Ibarra