2025 Equal Justice Conference

2025 Equal Justice Conference

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7:30am EDT

Breakfast - Coffee sponsored by Everlaw

7:30am EDT

Conference Registration

7:30am EDT

Exhibitor Showcase

7:30am EDT

Lactation Room - Sponsored by Complete Equity Markets, Inc.

7:30am EDT

Quiet Room - Sponsored by NLADA Mutual Insurance Co., RRG

8:30am EDT

Opening Plenary

8:30am EDT

Homeless Advocacy Session

8:30am EDT

Pre-Con: Beyond the Basics: Experienced Pro Bono Program Managers

8:30am EDT

Pre-Con: Law School Pro Bono Advisors Program

8:30am EDT

Pre-Con: New Pro Bono Managers Nuts and Bolts

8:30am EDT

Pre-Con: Promoting a Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Androgynous and Asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) Legal Landscape

10:00am EDT

Cultivating Self Awareness to Become a Better Advocate

10:00am EDT

Developing Training and Credentialing Standards for the Future of Justice: Ascendium and Frontline Justice’s Community Justice Worker National Taskforce

10:00am EDT

Ethical and Practical Considerations for Deploying a Generative AI Chatbot in Legal Self-Help Websites

10:00am EDT

Expanding Access to Justice through Legal Technology

10:00am EDT

Funding the Future: Supporting Law Students to Stay on the Path to Public Interest Careers

10:00am EDT

MIE Roundtable for Legal Services Executive Directors and Managers

10:00am EDT

Mountainqueer: Returning to Appalachia for Name Changes

10:00am EDT

Navigating the Digital Landscape

10:00am EDT

Pathways to Growth: Building Professional Development for Mission Impact

10:00am EDT

Rethinking Recruitment: Attracting and Retaining Today's Volunteers

10:00am EDT

Strengthening Neighborhoods with Pro Bono Support

10:00am EDT

The Art of the Ask – Partnering with Board Members to Make Successful Face-to-Face Solicitations

10:00am EDT

What's the Right Amount of Right to Counsel: The Conversation Continues

11:30am EDT

Exhibit Hall Drawing

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: ABA Free Legal Answers Administrators

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: CA Directors

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Democracy Protection

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: National Center for Medical legal partnerships

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Navigating the Digital Landscape

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: PBIF

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Project Managers

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Ready, Set, Secure: Navigating Technology and Security Assessments

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Reproductive Rights

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: State Pro Bono Support Staff

11:30am EDT

Networking Lunch: Transactional Pro Bono

1:15pm EDT

Advancing Elder Justice in Older Marginalized Communities Through Estate Planning Tools

1:15pm EDT

Advancing the Mission: Leveraging Efficiencies & Automating Tasks with AI

1:15pm EDT

CLIMB: Engaging Pro Bono Lawyers to Aid Low Income Entrepreneurs and Combat Generational Poverty

1:15pm EDT

Cy Pres Awards: The Latest News and Tips on an Important Source of Legal Aid Funding

1:15pm EDT

Data and Diversion: Lessons Learned from the NCSC Eviction Diversion Initiative

1:15pm EDT

Data is the New Lego: Using Data Analytics to Build Legal Aid Success

1:15pm EDT

Debt Collection Lawsuits in the Courts: Trends, Resources, and Reforms to Make a Difference

1:15pm EDT

Enhancing Legal Access Through Accessible Kiosks

1:15pm EDT

Ethics and Pro Bono Delivery

1:15pm EDT

Holistic Engagement: Talking Circles

1:15pm EDT

Navigating Indigenous Advocacy: Resources for Representing Native American Clients

1:15pm EDT

Overcoming the Access to Justice Gap For Asylum Seekers and New Arrivals

1:15pm EDT

Pro Se Support From Pro Bono Attorneys: The Supply and Demand Landscape

1:15pm EDT

Rethinking Board Governance: The Core Responsibilities of a Purpose Driven Board

2:30pm EDT

Break

2:30pm EDT

Exhibit Hall Drawing

2:45pm EDT

Advancing Justice Initiatives Through Alternative Dispute Resolution

2:45pm EDT

Best Practices: Protecting LGBTQ+ Families from Executive Orders and Providing Legal Safeguards for Clients Facing Challenges Due to Attacks on Federal Law and State Legislative

2:45pm EDT

Building A Feedback Culture: With an Emphasis on the Feedback You Are Afraid to Give

2:45pm EDT

Collaborative Models for Pro Bono Engagement and Empowering Librarians to Address Legal Inequities

2:45pm EDT

Combatting the Negative Impacts of Incarceration On Families and Children

2:45pm EDT

Gen AI for Self-Represented Litigants: the Final Frontier of Access to Justice?

2:45pm EDT

Harnessing Pro Bono Power to Defend and Advance Racial Equity and DEI Initiatives

2:45pm EDT

Intake Process Improvement: Enhancing Legal Aid Efficiency and Client Experience

2:45pm EDT

Responding to the Evolving Funding Landscape for Legal Aid - Federal Funding Panel Discussion

2:45pm EDT

Supersized Pro Bono: Exploring Pathways to Growing Pro Bono Staff

2:45pm EDT

The Last “Affordable Housing”: Protecting Mobile and Manufactured Home Communities Before and After Disasters.

2:45pm EDT

Using Data in Advocacy

2:45pm EDT

Utility Debt: Its Impact on Low-Income Communities and Strategies for Challenging and Reforming Predatory Practices

4:00pm EDT

Break

4:15pm EDT

A Tale of Two Coordinated Intake Systems

4:15pm EDT

Creating Supportive Work Environments for People with Visible/Invisible Disabilities

4:15pm EDT

Design Pro Bono Projects to Create Volunteer Choice: A "Choose Your Own Adventure Story."

4:15pm EDT

Fairness and Accountability in an Anti-DEI Jurisdiction

4:15pm EDT

From Data to Action: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders to Respond Meaningfully to Statewide Civil Legal Needs Assessments

4:15pm EDT

Going For It—Starting a Pro Se Self-Help Center with Resources You Already Have

4:15pm EDT

Grassroots to Fruits: Seeding and Nurturing Change in Partnership with Impacted Individuals and Marginalized Communities

4:15pm EDT

Harnessing the Power of Collective Action: Lessons (so far) from the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance

4:15pm EDT

How Legal Services Programs are Innovating with Generative AI to Enhance Client Services

4:15pm EDT

Legal Help for Kinship Caregivers: Developing Innovative Service Delivery Models to Meet Emergent Client Needs

4:15pm EDT

Tackling Toxicity in Organizations: Building Healthy, Thriving Volunteer Environments

4:30pm EDT

Native American Section Cocktail session

4:30pm EDT

SRLN Cocktail session

6:00pm EDT

Welcome Reception