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Richard Zorza
Attorney Independent Consultant |
Richard Zorza is an attorney and independent consultant who has worked for the past fifteen years helping nonprofits and government find ways to use technology to carry out their strategic and service visions. His current projects include working with the Open Society Institute in a process to build a system to meet legal information needs of low and middle income people and the legal advocacy organizations that serve them (www.lawhelp.org), advising the National Community Development Initiative on a technology strategy in support of community economic development, helping in the development of an Access to Justice Technology Bill of Rights (www.wsba.org/tbor) and serving as consultant to the Harvard Law School Bellow-Sacks Project on Access to Justice.
Among his prior projects have been: the Midtown Community Court Computer System, winner of the 1995 Windows Open Award for government nonprofit software; the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem Litigation Support System; the Internet Based Domestic Violence Court Preparation System; and the Interactive Complaint Analyzer of the Human Right Ombudsmen of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His new book, The Self-Help Friendly Court: Designed from the Ground Up to Work for People Without Lawyers, has just be published by the National Center for State Courts. Additional information and publications can be obtained on his website at www.zorza.net.