Low Income People Get Online Chats, Web-Based Legal Documents and Other Technologies, Thanks to $2.3 Million in 32 New LSC “Technology Initiative Grants”
Legal Services E-lert
Date of E-Lert – 10/03/08
Bibliographic Info:
Author: Press Release
Source: “LSC Awards $2.27 Million in Technology Grants,” Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Date: September 19, 2008
The
Legal
Services Corporation announces:
"The Legal Services Corporation, the nation's single largest source of
funding for civil legal aid for the poor, has awarded $2.27 million in
technology grants to LSC programs in 21 states, LSC President Helaine M.
Barnett announced today [September 19, 2008].
The grants will be used for technology that makes it easier for
low-income Americans to apply for legal assistance, simplifies the creation of
legal documents for those who are representing themselves in court and provides
information through online chats, called LiveHelp. One LSC-funded program
will use its grant to redesign portions of a website to make the content
available via cell phone browsers . . . .
For 2008, LSC has awarded 32 Technology Initiative Grants (TIG).
LSC provided $1.97 million in funding and the State Justice Institute provided
an additional $300,000 for the grants . . . .
In the competition for TIG funding, the grantees proposed innovative
ways to expand client intake through online systems, expand assistance to
unrepresented litigants through the development of additional automated forms
and provide support for replication of technologies that improve client
services."
Tags: Funding, Issues in Legal Services Delivery, Legal Services Structure
