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Updated Find Legal Help to include local domestic
violence shelters and hotlines and COVID-related
resources and guides.
Added Civil Legal Navigator button on FLH
o Create new and maintain existing SRL resource centers
(websites and help desks) and statewide uniform domestic
forms
Set up Google analytics in order to analyze traffic to LSBA-
managed Judicial District Court self-help websites.
SRL & Technology Committees are working on making forms
automated and guided.
o Develop and expand membership of online modest means
directory
Hosted three free CLEs to attorney members of the Modest
Means Directory. Increased the number of attorneys listed on
the Directory by 15.
Attended a meeting of the Washington Parish Bar
Association to encourage participation in the Modest
Means Online Directory and as volunteers for
LA.FreeLegalAnswers.org.
Attorneys listed now increased to 70, with 5700 total
visitors and 5% increase in views in 2020 versus 2019.
Directory nominated for Louis M. Brown Award.
o Update “Becoming an Adult” website
The Children’s Law Committee continues to work on updating
the “Becoming an Adult” guide and website. Plans are
underway to utilize a QR code that will direct users to the
website, rather than printing copies of the guide.
Promote unmet statewide legal needs report recommendations;
Authored Bar Journal article featuring unmet statewide legal needs
report’s recommendations and Economic Impact Study results.
Presented unmet statewide legal needs report findings at the annual
Louisiana Justice Community Conference, October 2019. Findings will
be used in communication planning for the next phase of the JFA
process.
Continue to administer the Legal Innovators for Tomorrow (LIFT)
Program which targets new attorneys interested in focusing a practice
on unmet legal needs;
o Address domestic violence, disaster and expungement legal
needs
o Launched Flood Proof program to increase access to legal
representation for people affected by the 2016 flooding in Baton
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