000 02290nam a22001937a 4500
003 OSt
005 20230627154512.0
008 211216b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100 _9646
_aHagan, Margaret
245 _aThe user experience of the internet as a legal help service :
_bdefining standards for the next generation of user-friendly online legal services
260 _bVirginia Journal of Law & Technology,
_cFall 2016.
300 _a72 pages
500 _aKeywords: Legal Design, Access to Justice, Online Legal Services, Legal Technology, Procedural Justice
520 _aAbstract This Article presents empirical research about how the Internet is currently failing laypeople who are searching online for legal help to their life problems and what a future agenda of user-centered standards and practices for better legal help on the Internet could be. It first examines the existing literature about how the Internet can best be used as legal resource and the status quo of legal help sites. Then it surveys and examines negative consumer reports and reviews of legal help websites. Finally, it presents the first study of how laypeople search for resources to resolve a legal issue, how they scout and assess legal help services online, and their feedback on which existing legal help sites they consider to be the most usable, the most trustworthy, and the most valuable. This data is useful to propose new best practices about how these tech-based services can best serve laypeople, in terms of usability, quality of service, and protection of the users' interests. It also confirms the importance of the Internet as a legal help service and highlights the need for more research and development on better online legal help sites that fit laypeople’s needs and preferences.
524 _aCitation: Hagan, Margaret, The User Experience of the Internet as a Legal Help Service: Defining Standards for the Next Generation of User-Friendly Online Legal Services (November 15, 2016). Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 394, 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2942478
650 0 _aService Delivery
_zInternational
_9637
856 _uhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2942478
_yView item on publishers website
942 _2ddc
_cA
999 _c621
_d621