

Talk Justice An LSC Podcast
Legal Services Corporation
The Legal Services Corporation's Talk Justice podcast explores innovative ways to expand access to justice, bringing together legal experts, technologists, business leaders, community organizers and government officials for thoughtful conversations about ending the access-to-justice crisis.
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Oct 12, 2021 • 29min
Shifting the Narrative on Access to Justice Advocacy
Former Massachusetts Representative Joe Kennedy III and Rohan Pavuluri, CEO and co-founder of the bankruptcy nonprofit Upsolve, join LSC President Ron Flagg to discuss shifting the narrative on access-to-justice advocacy.{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Sep 28, 2021 • 44min
How State Attorneys General Can Work with Legal Aid Providers to Serve Low-Income Americans
Five Attorneys General discuss civil justice initiatives in their jurisdictions and how they can work more effectively with legal aid providers to help low-income Americans.Host: Ron Flagg, President of the Legal Services CorporationGuests:- Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin- Doug Peterson, Attorney General of Nebraska- Karl Racine, Attorney General of the District of Columbia- Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General of Oregon- Herbert Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee {produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Sep 14, 2021 • 38min
How the Pandemic Is Impacting the Opioid Crisis and People in Recovery
Legal Services Corporation President Ron Flagg discusses how the COVID pandemic is deepening the opioid crisis and complicating the lives of persons in recovery with:- Brandon George, Director of Indiana Addiction Issues Coalition- Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Friends of Research Institute; MSP Staff Physician at the University of California San Francisco- Brendan Wood, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Legal Aid of West Virginia {produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Aug 24, 2021 • 40min
Why Civil Legal Aid and Access to Justice Are Important to American Business
In this episode of Talk Justice, distinguished business leaders discuss the business community’s perspective on the importance of access to justice during the pandemic with LSC President Ron Flagg.Host: LSC President Ron FlaggPanelists:
Teresa Wynn Roseborough, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Home Depot
Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO, Merck & Co. and co-chair of LSC's Leaders Council
David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group
John F. Schultz, chief operating, legal officer and executive vice-president, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Aug 10, 2021 • 35min
What to Expect from the Relaunch of the DOJ’s Office for Access to Justice
In this episode of Talk Justice, host Jason Tashea sits down with Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5), co-chair of the Congressional Access to Civil Legal Aid Caucus; Karen Lash of the American University Justice Programs Office and former official at DOJ’s Office for Access to Justice; and Elizabeth Werner, managing attorney at Legal Aid of West Virginia to discuss what President Biden’s executive order re-establishing the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable means for access to justice. {produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Jul 28, 2021 • 34min
Former VA General Counsel Will A. Gunn on His New Leadership Role at LSC
The Legal Service Corporation’s new vice president for legal affairs and general counsel Will A. Gunn discusses his new position and his legal and military experience in an episode of LSC’s “Talk Justice” podcast. LSC President Ronald S. Flagg hosts the conversation.

Apr 15, 2021 • 39min
How Non-Lawyer Navigators Are Expanding Access to Justice
In this episode of Talk Justice, LSC President Ron Flagg discusses how non-lawyer court navigators are expanding access to justice with Mary McClymont, adjunct professor and senior fellow at The Justice Lab, Georgetown University Law Center. McClymont directed a recent Justice Lab survey of how these navigators are assisting self-represented litigants in 15 states and Washington, D.C.

Apr 1, 2021 • 40min
Right-to-Counsel Mandates and the Eviction Crisis
In this episode of LSC's Talk Justice, LSC Emerging Leaders Council member Jason Tashea sat down with John Pollock, staff attorney for the Public Justice Center and the coordinator of the National Coalition for the Civil Right to Counsel; Hazel Remesch, supervising attorney at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland; and Kathryn Sabbeth, associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina.

Mar 11, 2021 • 36min
Improving the Delivery of Legal Services Through Medical-Legal Partnerships
Medical-legal partnerships are the focus in this episode of “Talk Justice." LSC Emerging Leaders Council member Jason Tashea hosts a conversation on how MLPs can improve health outcomes with Bethany Hamilton, co-director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership; Dr. Dawn Haut, CEO at Eskenazi Health Center in Indiana; and Rakuya Trice, deputy director of Indiana Legal Services and the organization’s director of medical-legal partnerships.

Feb 23, 2021 • 21min
Court Innovations During COVID-19
In the latest episode of Talk Justice, LSC Board Vice Chair Father Pius Pietrzyk discusses court innovations with Rita H. Blandino, director of the D.C. Court’s Domestic Violence Division, and Paul Tuttle, assistant clerk for the Massachusetts Court of Appeals. The speakers describe the many challenges COVID-19 poses to the justice system and to low-income Americans with legal problems. They share details on how their courts have leveraged technology and partnerships to meet these challenges head on.


