As legal self-help websites grow, generative AI chatbots offer efficiency and accessibility but raise ethical, practical, and technical concerns. This interactive session explores deploying AI in sensitive areas like family court, focusing on ethical issues, policy implications, and decision-making frameworks to ensure fairness, equity, and effectiveness.
Thursday May 15, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am EDT Continential 2
Demand for pro se support has increased while the pro bono attorney supply landscape has changed. This session will explore reasons behind this dichotomy and offer strategies for increasing self-represented litigant access to volunteer attorneys. Highlighted models include online legal clinics, legal assistance hotlines and other convenient limited scope engagements.
Thursday May 15, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT Continential 2
Toxicity can undermine volunteer well-being, disrupt engagement, frustrate leaders, and ultimately hinder organisational success. This practical and inspiring session will explore the signs of toxic environments in organisations and offer real, actionable strategies for transformation. Through insightful examples and actionable takeaways, participants will explore how to create healthier, more supportive environments where volunteers feel valued, motivated, and empowered to make a lasting impact.
Thursday May 15, 2025 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT Continential 2
This session will provide tools to increase cultural competency and ability to serve low-income LGBTQ+ clients in a rapidly changing social and legal climate. The session will cover key developments in the law, as well as important concepts and practice considerations relating to serving LGBTQ+ low-income clients.
Friday May 16, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am EDT Continential 2
Program Description: This session explores how strategic partnerships among legal services organizations, law firms, companies, and expert consultants enhance legal services. Participants will learn from real-world examples, discuss overcoming barriers, and gain practical tools to forge impactful alliances, ultimately improving access to justice for underserved communities.
The SCOTUS decision abolishing affirmative action in college admissions profoundly affected racial justice litigation. The SFFA case was cited in legal attacks on Title VI disparate impact regulations, and several programs assisting minority businesses. Learn about these developments, current efforts to invalidate immigration laws due to intentional racial discrimination and the ways in which the decision profoundly affected other laws and programs that foster racial justice.
