Talk Justice An LSC Podcast

Tech tools can minimize tedious, routine legal work, allowing attorneys more time to dedicate to higher-level strategic tasks and their clients. Tech also enables unrepresented people to better navigate complex legal systems. This is how streamlining repetitive processes improves the efficiency of legal services organizations and promotes increased access to justice.Guests Include: Ransom Wydner, Vice President of Pro Bono and Social Impact at SixFifty Sam Flynn, Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at Josef

Martha Minow joins LSC President Ron Flagg to discuss access to justice, law schools and her new role as the MacArthur Foundation’s board chair on the latest episode of LSC's “Talk Justice” podcast.Martha Minow, 300 th Anniversary Professor, Harvard Law School; Co-chair of the Access-to-Justice Board at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Former Harvard Law School Dean; Former LSC Board Member.

There is a massive disconnect between what courts were designed to do—solve legal disputes through lawyer-driven, adversarial litigation—and what these courts are asked to do today—help people without lawyers navigate complex social, economic and interpersonal challenges, most of which are deeply tied to structural inequality. As a result, the judicial role is in upheaval, according to our guests. In this episode, we discuss how we got here and if we can fix it.Guests: Colleen F. Shanahan, Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School; Founder of Columbia Law School’s Community Advocacy Lab Anna Carpenter, Professor of Law, Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Senior Director, Presidential Initiatives, Office of the President, University of Utah; Founder and Director of the Justice Lab at Utah College of Law Alyx Mark, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University. Article: “America’s Lawyerless Courts,” written by Anna E. Carpenter, Colleen F. Shanahan, Alyx Mark and Jessica Steinberg.

Law school leaders discuss how their academic institutions work towards expanding access to justice on the latest episode of LS's “Talk Justice” podcast.Thomas Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School.William Treanor, Dean and Executive Vice President, Georgetown University Law School; Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair.Miguel Willis, Innovator in Residence at the University of Penn’s Carey Law School Future of the Profession Initiative (FPI); Executive Director of Access to Justice Tech Fellows.

Leaders from Georgetown University’s Health Justice Alliance discuss how the medical-legal partnership (MLP) benefits both law and medical students on the latest episode of TalkJustice. Dr. Ana Caskin, deputy medical director of the Health Justice Alliance and director of the Anacostia and Roosevelt School based Health Centers Professor Vicki Girard, faculty director of the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance Dr. Eileen Moore, medical director of the Health Justice Alliance and associate dean of the Georgetown School of Medicine

Legal experts discuss the access-to-justice implications of the increasing number of climate emergencies in the U.S. and the role attorneys play. Ariadna Godreau Aubert, founder and executive director of Ayuda Legal Puerto RicoJeanne Ortiz-Ortiz, pro bono and strategic initiatives manager at Pro Bono NetLinda Anderson Stanley, senior manager for disaster resilience programming at Equal Justice Works Ariadna

Associate Justice Anne McKeig of the Minnesota Supreme Court joins Talk Justice to discuss her trailblazing legal career and how courts can expand access to justice. 

Legal experts share their perspectives on the expungement process. In this episode, we're talking about criminal records – or at least, how to get rid of them. In the U.S. approximately 1/3 of all people have a criminal record. Having a criminal record can affect one's job, professional licensing, ability to get housing or government benefits and much more. While legal aid helps many navigate the, often difficult, process clearing their criminal record, the problem is larger than their capacity. In this episode, host Jason Tashea sits down with legal experts to discuss how technology and policy are changing the ways these records impact peoples lives and how the government can better operate - giving people a second chance.Legal Experts: Yousef Kassim, founder and CEO of EasyExpunctions, Sarah Esther Lageson, associate professor at Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice, and Noella Sudbury, founder and CEO of Rasa Public Benefit Corporation.

Newly appointed National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) President and CEO April Frazier Camara shares her goals for the NLADA and the personal history that led her to advocate for access to justice.  

Is there a conservative case for supporting civil legal aid? Prominent conservative and libertarian thought leaders share their perspectives on access-to-justice issues and recent regulatory changes.