Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) is one of the best legal aid websites in the United States. According to ABA Journal, “If Oscars were awarded for legal aid websites, Lisa Colpoys might be working on her acceptance speech.” ILAO offers useful legal information on daily topics like divorce, guardianship, eviction and small claim suits.
Let’s be frank. For lawyers in the 21st century, the legal landscape is ever-changing and technology is playing a vital role in this progress. Mobile applications, chatbots, and automated processes (just to name a few), are being deployed throughout the legal community. I will admit, I am a bit “old school.” I still write letters
This summer for my Access to Justice Technology Fellowship I am working with Michigan Legal Help (MLH). I am also glad to say that joining me at MLH is my Michigan State University classmate LaDierdre McKinney! MLH is a website that operates under the wider-reaching Michigan Poverty Law Program. MLH gives legal information to
Represent yourself? Of course you can! Legal services are often unavailable to many because they cannot afford it, which has created an access -to-justice crisis. In response to this crisis, several legal professionals have made it their mission to bridge this gap. Everyone needs legal services at some point in their life; therefore, legal
Aloha,
Happy Kamehameha Day weekend! For those of you thinking, “what is that?” Kamehameha Day honors Kamehameha the Great, who unified the Hawaiian islands.
Welcome back to my blog on my journey at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii (http://www.legalaidhawaii.org/). As the A2J Tech Fellow, many people have come up to me with their
I had my first encounter with a private debt collector attempting to collect on a tax debt for a client this week. In short, I was assisting a client who had not filed taxes for several years and whose account had been transferred to Pioneer, one of the four contracted private collection agencies of the
Aloha Kakahiaka and Good Morning,
Here at Legal Aid Society (http://www.legalaidhawaii.org/), our mission is “to address critical legal needs through high quality legal advocacy, outreach, and education in the pursuit of justice and fairness.“
We help our clients in areas of law that include public assistance, wage theft, consumer protections & foreclosures, fair housing, family law, immigration
There is a great deal of unknown when it comes to the future of the military as it converges with technology. As the fear mongers and futurists become more divided, vast gaps between the two continue to go unaddressed. Armed forces worldwide have been utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for decades and it recently has allowed
After announcing to a new acquaintance that I’m in law school, almost invariably the next question is always, “Oh, what kind of law do you want to practice?”. From the very start, I have been fortunate to know that my future is in tax law. I was offered a rare
Aloha awakea,
That means “good afternoon.”
With my last final behind me, I am looking forward to enjoying my summer fellowship with Access To Justice at my home base at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.
Surfer in the morning, attorney in the evening, and student at night.
On top of being a student, I am