Abstract
<p>This paper will investigate the current use of technology in law clinics in Australia. It will look at the challenge of integrating case management and assessment technology in clinical teaching practices and propose some creative ways of creating, integrating and managing such software to enhance not only the way clinics are run, but also how students are taught. It will also make some suggestions and provide an analysis of a comprehensive computer package which would provide a resolution to many of the law office management and student assessment issues facing law school clinics around Australia today.</p>
Highlights
Lawyers are notoriously slow at embracing technology
Despite such reluctance to embrace technology being shown in Australia, the last decade has seen a vast increase in the availability of law firm ‘case and time management’ software programs in the U.S.A
A great deal of time and energy is spent justifying clinics’ existence, in terms of both community service and pedagogical aims. Because this struggle for credibility is ongoing, clinicians must always keep abreast of changes to the law, developments in technology and changing requirements in the teaching environment
Summary
Client database – This is currently being provided by CLSIS to most community legal services around Australia, including legal clinics. CLSIS currently has the ability to perform conflict searches and to sort matters by client name and matter type This could be enhanced by providing an ability to perform searches by other means – student I.D, supervisor, date opened/closed, gender, country of birth, and other ways, customisable by the user. This information (which is presently accessible in CLSIS as statistical data and reports)[9] could become downloadable as Word, Excel, HTML format or PDF files so that the data can be manipulated for documents such as Annual Reports and staff meetings. Once a research document is created and saved, the user would have the ability to later find that particular document using virtually any criteria such as matter name, client name, date, supervisor, student, words or phrases within it
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