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| Happy fall, everyone! We don’t know about you, but fall has always been one of our favorite seasons. We love the warm colors of the leaves, the bonfire smells, and all the fun fall activities. And now that everyone is back from vacation and the bar year has kicked off, it seems to be go-go-go around here at IAALS and within the profession more generally! It continues to be full speed ahead in certain segments of the regulatory innovation space. Innovation for Justice recently launched a new webpage that aggregates all the great work they continue to do, including creating new legal service models through regulatory reform. And Alaska Legal Services Corporation’s Community Justice Worker Program just received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to further its work. On the other side of the country, Legal Aid of North Carolina recently launched an Innovation Lab, the first in the country to be housed at a legal aid organization. Its mission is to engage in transformative innovation that improves the delivery of legal services, expands access to justice, and addresses inequity in the delivery of legal services in rural areas. You can learn more about the innovation lab in this episode of Talk Justice. Finally, the next Redesigning Legal webinar, “Exploring the Legal Tech Market,” is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. MT on October 10. Learn more and register here. Also, ICYMI, we released our Community & Cooperation: Action Steps Toward Unlocking Legal Regulation report in August. This report distills the various conversations that occurred over the course of our June 2022 convening into key themes and recommendations for next steps aimed at bolstering existing regulatory innovation efforts and kickstarting new ones, and creating opportunities to engage new people and perspectives in the movement. Check it out if you haven’t already done so! |
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Jessica Bednarz
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| September 21: “So You Want to Implement an Allied Legal Professional Program, Part 2” on IAALS Blog September 21: “ABF’s Access to Justice Researchers Join in $1 Million Grant from the National Science Foundation” on the American Bar Foundation website September 20: “ANALYSIS: Lawyers Worry Most About the Profession’s Reputation” in Bloomberg Law August 29: “On Better Terms: What should we do with 'nonlawyer'?” in the ABA Journal August 25: “More States Should Join Effort To Close Legal Services Gap” on Law360 August 25: “Firm Ownership Debate Rages Amid ABA Innovation Leader Change-Up” in Bloomberg Law August 15: “So You Want to Implement an Allied Legal Professional Program, Part 1” on IAALS Blog August 9: “Education, Training & Testing: The Steps to Becoming an Allied Legal Professional” on IAALS Blog August 8: “IAALS Aims to Make Legal Help Affordable Through National Framework” in University of Denver News August 2: “IAALS Report Spurs Action for Regulatory Innovation” on IAALS Blog August 2: “Opinion: DoNotPay Controversy Illuminates Urgent Need for Regulatory Reform” on LawNext Legal Tech Directory August 2: “Ethics Opinion to Allow Florida Lawyers to Passively Invest in Out-of-State Firms that Include Nonlawyer Owners to be Published for Comment” in Florida Bar News |
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| Administrative Order establishing the Civil Legal Regulatory Reform Task Force of the District of Columbia Courts Affordable Law Task Force Report and Recommendations from the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Access to Justice Commission “Alaska Legal Services Corporation: Moving Beyond Lawyer-Based Solutions with Community Justice Workers” article from the Legal Services Corporation The Bar Re-Imagined: Options for State Courts to Re-Structure the Regulation of the Practice of Law report from the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession Community & Cooperation: Action Steps Toward Unlocking Legal Regulation report from IAALS “Ethics, Lawyering, and Regulation in a Time of Great Change: Field Notes from the (R)evolution” article in the South Carolina Law Review |
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From the Sandbox
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Some highlights from the latest activity report out of Utah's Office of Legal Services Innovation:
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IAALS has opened the nomination window for the 2024 Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes innovators who have made significant impacts early in their legal careers toward making the American legal system work better for everyone.
The award is designed to encourage and showcase innovators, risk takers, visionaries, and emerging leaders who bring a different perspective and a reform-minded approach to the improvement of our legal system. Candidates should be early in their legal careers to be eligible, roughly the first 15 years. |
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| Nominations for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award will be accepted through December 1. IAALS will review the nominations and select the recipient, which will be at presented at our Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner in April. Nominations can be made here. | |||||
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Knowledge Center to track what's happening around the country and the world when it comes to legal regulation, as well as submit information and sign up for notifications.
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| Here are some upcoming events during which regulatory reform or innovation has been identified as a topic for discussion. For purposes of this events section, we are defining regulatory reform and innovation as rethinking how legal services are regulated and delivered and as expanding the ecosystem of service providers who can deliver legal help. October 10: “Redesigning Legal: Exploring the Legal Tech Market” webinar October 11–13: International Access to Justice Forum November 8–11: NLADA 2023 Annual Conference February 9, 2024: Legal Paraprofessional Summit |
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