The MIE Roundtable allows legal services Executive Directors and Managers to discuss difficult challenges and pressing concerns confidentially, and to benefit from their colleagues who have experience and learning to share. This session moves the community as a whole forward toward better management, resulting in better services to clients.
Thursday May 15, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am EDT Golden Gate 6
Panelists will introduce and demonstrate Purpose-Driven Board Leadership, a governance framework that helps governing boards of legal services organizations reimagine their roles to provide the strategic leadership and oversight that helps the sector better preserve and advance justice and equity.
Thursday May 15, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT Golden Gate 6
This session will explore models for growth in pro bono units at three different civil legal services organizations serving a mix of metropolitan and rural communities. Participants will take time to envision growth in pro bono teams at their own organizations, what they hope to achieve, and concrete strategies to make it happen. While the session will focus on challenges experienced with expanding programs at civil legal services agencies, lessons will be applicable to firms and others looking to expand pro bono programs.
Thursday May 15, 2025 2:45pm - 4:00pm EDT Golden Gate 6
AI may have the power to democratize access to justice, but the path forward is complex. LSC’s Technology Initiatives Grant team will share many varied ways legal aid organizations are using AI tools to increase access to justice and enhance services to clients and self-represented litigants. The session will highlight use cases including how AI is used in internal/administrative tasks; legal advocacy; better help for SRLs; intake improvements; and more. Panelists will then lead a discussion related to replication strategies and other ways AI can enhance the work of legal aid.
Thursday May 15, 2025 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT Golden Gate 6
This session explores innovative upstream models from Frontline Justice, the Center for Justice Innovation, and HealthBegins, focusing on non-attorney interventions to bridge civil justice gaps. Attendees will gain practical insights into applying these approaches to address unmet legal needs through preventive, community-based strategies and problem-solving projects in various courts.
Friday May 16, 2025 10:00am - 11:15am EDT Golden Gate 6
Common data security assumptions don't always apply in the domestic violence (DV) context. With rampant breaches every year, there is a pressing need to focus on cybersecurity, for individuals, agencies working with survivors, and regulators looking at data protections. How can we ensure that data privacy and security policies, procedures, and rules all reflect the realities experienced by survivors? This session will outline how assumptions fail to account for the realities experienced by survivors; it will also offer suggestions for how to help clients concerned about these issues.
Friday May 16, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT Golden Gate 6
This session is designed to build on the workshops we have done for the past few years on how to explain legal aid as constituent services to legislators and their staff. Now that many LSC grantees and other legal aid programs have begun to develop relationships with their federal and state legislators and staff, we want to identify ways to build on and expand those connections, e.g., provide trainings for district caseworkers; involve legislative staff in community outreach efforts. The panel will include LSC grantee Executive Directors and civil legal aid practitioners with experience meetin
Friday May 16, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT Golden Gate 6
