This summer, I participated in Passport to Practice. The focus was on competencies outside of legal know-how needed for success in the legal profession. It was great! I felt vindicated (I am selfish, I am wrong). But one major take-away? So. Much. Jargon.
For instance: valuation. What does that even mean? According to
Ji Hye is a J.D. Candidate at University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law.
She graduated from Ewha Womans University, South Korea, in 2017. Her undergraduate major was English Language and Literature; she double-majored in Digital Humanities (Scranton Honor’s Program), and also minored in Computer Science and Engineering
This blog post is a response to a design-thinking and race-based advocacy challenge for the Access to Justice Tech Fellowship.
“In all too many cases, I had the sense that if only the immigrant had competent counsel at the very outset of immigration proceedings… the outcome might have been different, the noncitizen might have prevailed.”
When I received an offer to intern for an organization that advocates for the protection of civil liberties, I felt a little like a middle schooler whose mom scored tickets to see the Jonas Brothers circa 2007. My mom never got me tickets to see the Jonas Brothers, something I don’t hold against her, but
As all of you may know, divorce is expensive. In Colorado, the average cost of divorce without children is $14,500 (9th highest in the nation) and the average cost of divorce with children is $21,700 (10th highest in the nation). The goal for my summer project with A2J Tech is to make divorce in Colorado
If you ask Googs, it says a primer is “an elementary textbook that serves as an introduction to a subject of study or is used for teaching children to read.” An introduction. A place to start. Training. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when there is a lot happening – pandemic, protest, violence, political incompetence. Sometimes
Welcome to the Alaska Court System Self-Help Service’s web page. With just one click, anyone can travel back to the internet as it was in the 1990’s (if only it had an animated GIF).
The thing is, they know it isn’t great and they want to change it. But that’s not my project.
For our second blog challenge, we were asked to design a solution that would address a gap in legal access for a historically marginalized community of color in our locality. While thinking in the abstract about a complex legal solution is enticing, and perhaps more attractive in academic circles; I wanted to instead take this
Shortly after the NBA introduced the three-point line in 1979, current Houston Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni called his brother Dan, a fellow coach, and told him: “You might wanna start seeing how valuable that three-point line is.” About twenty-five years later, Mike D’Antoni would revolutionize the
Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog post! I will be assigned several blog challenges through the Access to Justice Tech Fellows Program and this blog post is a general overview of my host organization and the project I am working on this summer!
A2J Tech is a social enterprise that creates technology solutions to