Justice Innovation
The Alabama Access to Justice Commission used an ABA Expansion Grant to implement the web-based pro bono program Online Tennessee Justice, which allows pro bono attorneys to answer questions submitted by clients through a website. In Alabama the website has been launched as Alabama Legal Answers.
See more: Alabama – Online SRL Pro Bono Support
Final overview/report on creating the Alabama Legal Answers site.
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Can we make navigators that are game-like, or make games that allow a person to do a prep-run of what an actual legal procedure will be like?
This concept came out of a workshop on improving immigration support. It was for a board game that a group could play together, to learn the scenarios and pathways of immigration law.
It would be a jumpoff point for questioning more about law, and thinking through how immigration rules could apply to him.
Could we use the same methods of those television lawyers who bombard daytime-tv-watchers with ‘Are you injured? Can you sue? Call now to find your rights!’ — to increase lay people’s awareness of their rights, of civil remedies, of free or low-cost legal services?
Could we put law on the street? Have public space installations that give basic outreach, checklists, resources, if not even full-blown clinics for people to encounter in their daily life?
This idea is in part from conversations with my Mexican colleagues, with ideas for subway station legal clinics.