Name: Brief Advice: Online Resources To Fill the Gap Between Information & Representation
Start: 2024-08-30T11:30:00-0500
End: 2024-08-30T12:45:00-0500

Friday August 30, 2024 11:30am - 12:45pm CDT

Room 406

This session will discuss how four different online services use technology to provide brief legal advice to low-income clients, including: Texas Law Help Chat, Parenting Order Legal Line chat, Texas Free Legal Answers, and AskKarla. Attendees will learn how these services are able to reach a large number of people using relatively few resources, thus providing a valuable service to clients who are unable to afford an attorney and have been unable to find a free attorney. We will also discuss how attendees might incorporate these services into their workflow.

Speakers

Michael Hofrichter

LegalServer

Aaron Varner

Co-Managing Attorney, TLSC

Aaron Varner is a staff attorney in Texas Legal Services Center’s Self Represented Litigants Program, which administers TexasLawHelp.org. He has a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he focused on tech policy, and he received his JD from Chicago-Kent... Read More →