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10 LISP Newsl. 1 (1998)

handle is hein.lbr/lisp0010 and id is 1 raw text is: LISP LEGAL INFORMATION SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC NEWSLETTER A SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY! By Betsy McKenzie, Suffolk University Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law The ABA is sponsoring the Children's SSI Project: Helping Children with Disabili- ties. As a result of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, many disabled children are being de- nied SSI (Supplemental Security Income) eligibility. You can volunteer with state and local organizations to assist these families in their appeals. You do not have to be a lawyer to represent the claimants up through the Administrative Law Judge level. You can find out more on the ABA web page: http://www.abanet.org/legalserv/ssi.htmI or by calling Julie E. Justicz, the Project Director at (312) 988-5765 or via e-mail: justiczj@staff.abanet.org. I recently signed up to participate in this project and my local organization, Volunteer Lawyers in Boston has been just wonderful. They supply office space, con- sultation, reimbursement for expenses, and lots of encouragement. SSI cases are very narrow and once you have handled one or two, you have a good feel for the issues. I feel confident that this type of case is not going to look like a simple little case and then blow up into some time-consuming monster. And if it does, I feel confident that the Volunteer Lawyers will help me out. Frankly, I may find it easier to volunteer than some members, since I am the director of a library, and nobody is going to tell me I can't take some work time to work on the case if I need to. On the other hand, I still have to get all my work done, no matter how long it takes me. So, I have developed some little tricks to get it all done. I take public transportation to and from work. While I'm riding in on the subway, I read my newsletters and journals. I sort Rothman greenslips while I wait for meet- ings to start. I try to set up as much of my work as possible into systems. There is a system in place to deal with prisoner re- quests, for instance, or gift books. The system functions automatically, with each staff member knowing ahead of time what they do and how they do it. So I spend a lot less time making decisions on repeating issues. It still is hard to squeeze out the time, LISP NEWSLETTER PAGE) SPRING 1998

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