Join Innovation for Justice (i4J) in marking our five years of community-based justice work with a webinar series this Fall 2024! Read our recent Press Release and visit our Community Legal Education webpage today to learn more about this half-decade of building the “Community Law School.”
WHAT: A Multi-Part Webinar Series
- In 1986, U.S. legal scholar and activist Mari Matsuda insisted, "[t]here is . . . a place called Justice and it will take many voices to get there." Today, a growing national movement promises to bring this future by rethinking how and by whom legal help is delivered.
- Since 2019, i4J has partnered with communities on the front lines of this campaign, co-designing legal service innovations to our nation’s access to justice crisis. Across five years of collaboration, i4J has centered 1,000+ voices in developing community-based justice worker initiatives: upstream legal empowerment pathways for trusted helpers to learn and use the law.
- Reflecting on the Arizona and Utah Supreme Courts’ watershed reforms to state unauthorized practice of law restrictions, this webinar series shares lessons learned from half a decade of multi-state justice work. Over the coming months, we invite you to join us in finding, together, this future “place called Justice.”
WHEN & WHERE: Across Fall 2024 in Three Parts
This live, FREE webinar series will be offered via Zoom
- Use the links below to register today for each of the three sessions in this series!
- Closed-caption recordings will be made available on our website after the series’ conclusion
- NOTE - All times provided in Mountain Standard Time, as Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time
- Zoom registration will format to your time zone
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Session I. Building at the Speed of Trust: Designing Intentional Community-Based Justice Work
Join us for an opening plenary from Innovation for Justice, followed by a panel discussion on the value of community-engaged innovation and the need for relational justice work.
- October 22, 2024 from 12:30 - 2:00pm MST
- Keynote Speaker:
Cayley Balser, Professor of Practice and Service Impact Area Lead, Innovation for Justice
- Panel Discussion:
Roxanna Martinez, Program Manager, Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse
Jessica Bednarz, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
Chloe Silva, Director of Grantee Partnerships, Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona
Emmie Gardner, CEO, Holy Cross Ministries
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Session II. The Community Law School: Access to Justice Through Legal Empowerment
Join us for a brief presentation on Community Legal Education at Innovation for Justice, followed by two panels on the implementation and many futures of community-based justice work!
- November 18, 2024 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm MST
- Keynote Speakers:
Rachel Crisler, Project Lead, Innovation for Justice
Gabriela Elizondo-Craig, Project Lead, Innovation for Justice
- Panel 1 Discussion:
Hayley Cousin, Executive Director, Community Justice Advocates of Utah
Additional Community-Based Justice Work Program Administrators Forthcoming. . .
- Panel 2 Discussion:
Shannon Hayes, Housing Stability Legal Advocate, The Arizona Fair Housing Center
Kristin Guthrie, Wasatch County Victim Advocate
Additional Community-Based Justice Workers Forthcoming. . .
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Session III. Leading Together: Justice Work Through Partnership in Practice
Join us for a closing plenary from leadership of the Arizona and Utah Supreme Courts, followed by a panel discussion on the importance of cross-institutional partnerships in community-based justice work.
- December 2, 2024 from 10:00 - 11:30am MST
- Keynote Speakers:
Hon. Ann A. Scott Timmer, Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Hon. Matthew B. Durrant, Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court
Hon. Diana Hagen, Justice, Utah Supreme Court
- Panel Discussion:
Kim Paulding, Executive Director, Utah Bar Foundation
Mark McCall, Legal Service Innovations Manager of the Certification & Licensing Division, Arizona Administrative Office of the Courts
Danielle Hirsch, Managing Director of the Court Consulting Division, National Center for State Courts
CLE CREDITS: Information by State
In Arizona
- The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. This activity may qualify for up to 5 hours toward your annual CLE requirement for the State Bar of Arizona, including 1.5 hour(s) of professional responsibility.
In Utah
- MCLE credit is granted in Utah by the MCLE Board of the Supreme Court. This activity has been accredited for 5 hours of regular CLE credit by the Utah Supreme Court Board of Continuing Legal Education.
Across the U.S.
- Interested in having your attendance to this series count toward Continuing Legal Education credits in a state other than Arizona or Utah? Please email us today at info@innovation4justice.org.