Computerizing Client Services in the Law School Teaching Clinic: An Experiment in Law Office Automation |
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| Authors: | James A. Sprowl,Ronald W. Staud&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | James A. Sprowl;is Research Attorney, American Bar Foundation, and Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law and IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law. B.S.E., 1964, J.D., 1967, University of Michigan. Ronald W. Staudt;is Associate Professor of Law, IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law. B.A., B.S., 1967, Saint Joseph's College (Indiana);J.D., 1970, University of Chicago. |
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| Abstract: | In an earlier article (1979 American Bar Foundation Research Journal 1), James A. Sprowl described a new computational processor that enabled attorneys to automate repetitive client-interviewing and document-drafting tasks. In this article, Sprowl and coauthor Ronald W. Staudt describe the first experimental use of the new processor to serve the clients of a law school clinic. In the experiment attorneys and secretaries were trained to design automated practice systems. The authors analyze the results of this experiment and draw some preliminary conclusions about the future usefulness of automated law practice systems. |
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