Our Work – Technology
We maintain the Online Resource Center with the Empire Justice Center and other legal organizations that contribute to it. We videotape, edit and stream online trainings for IOLA grantees in NYS.
We host email discussion groups for the legal services community. Those lists knit advocates into an online community so they can ask questions about cases they are handling.
We provide a case management system free of charge to IOLA grantees. This system is available to non-IOLA grantees for a small charge, and all fees generated from the system are put back into further development and updating of the system. The system can run on individual machines, or a wide area network so that advocates in several program offices can access it remotely. It performs conflict checks, generates IOLA and LSC reports, generates form letters, does automatic income eligibility checks and stores documents electronically.
We also provide email addresses, with a wnylc.com extension and with other domain extensions, for IOLA funded grantees in NYS. The email accounts are hosted on our Linux server which is attached to two high speed fiber connections. Email is passed through two mirrored Barracuda appliances and is filtered for spam and viruses. The Barracudas are automatically updated hourly, and if one appliance is offline, the other takes over so email is almost never interrupted. IOLA grantees who do not host their email on the WNYLC server are welcome to use the barracuda appliances for email filtering.
