{"id":490,"date":"2007-01-24T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/01\/24\/resources-at-illinois-legal-aid-online\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:26:33","slug":"resources-at-illinois-legal-aid-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/01\/24\/resources-at-illinois-legal-aid-online\/","title":{"rendered":"resources at Illinois Legal Aid Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a pointer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfhelpsupport.org\">SelfHelpSuppor<\/a>t.org, I spent some time yesterday at the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegalaidonline.org\/index.php?news\"><strong>Illinois Legal Aid Online<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and found a few resources\u00a0I&#8217;d like to tell you about.\u00a0\u00a0ILA&#8217;s December 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegalaidonline.org\/index.php?news\"><em>eNewsletter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>describes two useful services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>video &#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegalaid.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&amp;contentID=5394\"><strong>Going to Court on Your Own<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, which helps to demystify the court process for pro se litigants.\u00a0 Because &#8220;Going to court on your own can be very confusing and intimidating,&#8221; the short instructional video &#8220;introduces those who cannot afford an attorney to the court process and instructs viewers on the basics of going to court <em>pro se<\/em>. The video is intended to help <em>pro se<\/em> litigants better understand the steps and procedures involved in going to court and familiarize them with the clerk&#8217;s office, the court room and the different people they will encounter at the courthouse.&#8221;\u00a0 It was developed and produced\u00a0by the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association, The Chicago Bar Foundation and Illinois Legal Aid Online [which is a pleasant change from the Illinois State Bar&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isba.org\/association\/036-16a.htm#gen61\">campaign<\/a> to educate the public against using a &#8220;lawyer in a box&#8221;].<\/li>\n<li>The development of <strong>Automated Forms Online<\/strong> for Legal Aid and Pro Bono Attorneys is also discussed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegalaidonline.org\/index.php?news\"><em>eNewsletter<\/em><\/a>, with links to the materials. \u00a0The forms, pleadings and documents can be found on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegaladvocate.org\/\">www.IllinoisLegalAdvocate.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoisprobono.org\/\">www.IllinoisProBono.org<\/a>. &#8220;Automated forms make it easier and faster to draft documents because the user is presented with only a series of questions to answer using a computer. When all of the questions are answered the user clicks a button, and the completed forms appear on the computer screen and can be saved or printed.&#8221; The first forms for attorney users are now live on the websites:\u00a0 Power of Attorney for Health Care; Power of Attorney for Property; Resignation of Agent for Power of Attorney; and Notice of Revocation of Agent for Power of Attorney. Divorce pleadings, adoptions forms, and eviction defense forms are expected to be online soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>Note<\/em>: We discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/03\/an-intro-to-document-assembly-online\/\">document assembly online<\/a> in a posting last October, where we described the <a href=\"https:\/\/npado.org\/\">National Public ADO<\/a>\u00a0(Automated Documents Online, or NPADO),\u00a0which can be used by individual consumers or their advocates, and is \u201da proven facility for delivering interactive interviews and document generation to self-represented individuals and advocates alike, from a web-connected browser, anywhere and anytime, using industry-standard software\u201d \u2014 for free!\u00a0 For more on automated document services, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/01\/23\/legalzoom-and-the-future-of-lawyering\/#more-489\">yesterday&#8217;s posting<\/a> about LegalZoom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, I discovered that Illinois Legal Aid has created self-help and informational materials for defendants or respondents (which will be noted at our posting on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/10\/help-for-the-pro-se-defendant\/\">help for the <em>pro se<\/em> defendant<\/a>).\u00a0 Along with many other general or plaintiff-oriented self-help articles, you&#8217;ll find links to the following pieces in the SideBar of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislegalaid.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&amp;contentID=5394\">this Illinois Legal Aid Online webpage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How Do I Respond to a Lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County?<br \/>\n\u00a0How Do I Settle an Eviction Case with My Landlord?\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0How to Defend Against a Default Judgment If Your Landlord is Trying to Evict You<br \/>\n\u00a0How to Get More Time after You Are Ordered to Move Out by a Judge\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0How to Help Defend a Foreclosure Case<br \/>\n\u00a0How to Respond to a Petition for Rule to Show Cause<br \/>\n\u00a0I am Being Sued in Kane County for an Amount of $10,000 or Less<br \/>\n\u00a0What Can I Do If I Am Sued for Mortgage Foreclosure?<br \/>\n\u00a0What Can I Do If My Landlord Wants to Evict Me?<br \/>\n\u00a0What To Do When You&#8217;re Sued by Mistake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a pointer from SelfHelpSupport.org, I spent some time yesterday at the website Illinois Legal Aid Online\u00a0and found a few resources\u00a0I&#8217;d like to tell you about.\u00a0\u00a0ILA&#8217;s December 2006 eNewsletter\u00a0describes two useful services: The video &#8220;Going to Court on Your Own&#8220;, which helps to demystify the court process for pro se litigants.\u00a0 Because &#8220;Going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}