Their Board of Directors reviews the information from the public and compares it to data they have received throughout the year. Once the Board has completed this process, it sets the priority work areas for the year. The reason they’re asking for it now is that their fiscal year runs October 1 to September 30.
To get your input into setting their priority work areas, P&A asks that you complete their online survey that will close on September 10, 2009.
Read about a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court that allows 3rd year law students to represent Felony Defendants UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A LICENSED ATTORNEY!
Below is a poll where you can express how you feel about moving to paperless courts. This question arose when I was looking through news e-lerts from the week. I noticed one article out of Las Vegas, yep that Vegas, and the photo almost overwhelmed me.
So, please complete the poll and let me know how you feel.
If Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, then SLAW, a cooperative Canadian weblog on things legal, should feel really flattered.
It appears that the Law Commission of Ontario/Commission du Droit de l’Ontario (LCO/CDO) is similar to the South Carolina Access to Justice Commission. Its mandate is to recommend law reform measures to increase the legal system’s relevance, effectiveness and accessibility; to clarify and simplify the law; consider technology as a means to enhance access to justice; and stimulate critical debate about law and promote scholarly legal research.
SLAW’s recent post “A Technology Project for the LCO” really caught my attention. Part of the LCO/CDO mandate is to consider technology as a conduit for access to justice and SLAW is requesting ideas for using technology as a means to enhance access to justice.
Here’s where the imitation occurs. I’m asking each of you to add your ideas for utilizing technology to enhance access to justice in the comments’ section of this post.
Please think broadly and creatively – instructional/explanatory videos, online records access, telephone instructions, email alerts, text messages, etc.
After all, you know how you “roll” and SC Access to Justice wants to reach you.
Identity Theft has become a common term in society these days. This is why the preceding story about the SCLS client is so important. It is heartening that entities exist to assist us when we become victims of this crime, but it made me wonder “Have you been the victim of identity theft?”
Last year a good friend of mine had her identity stolen. It has taken her almost the entire year to straighten out her credit. It was a complicated mess for her.
My brush with identity theft has been brief. Recently upon a review of credit card charges, my husband asked if I’d purchased anything from Mexico. I hadn’t. We immediately placed a call to our credit card company to dispute the charge. We will complete the necessary paperwork, the card in question was immediately destroyed (shredded at our house and placed out of circulation at the card company) and we were issued a new card and number. We were lucky.
-RFW
PS – If you think you have been or may be the victim of Identity Theft, check out the following Online Resources:
Trick or Treat – Here’s a little fun for you on Halloween. Enjoy!
-RFW
SORRY FOLKS – I guess this is what happens when you’re using an online tool and it appears to be malfunctioning in the other online product. I was trying to embed a fun, lighthearted poll for you. If we get back online soon I’ll add, otherwise simply enjoy the pumpkins. -RFW
