14th Annual Rebuilding Justice Award Dinner
The Cable Center
2000 Buchtel Blvd.
Denver, Colorado 80210
6:00 p.m. - Cocktails
7:00 p.m. - Dinner and Program
Each year, IAALS recognizes individuals and groups who exemplify the spirit of innovation and leadership that we champion as we work toward building a legal system that is accessible, fair, reliable, and accountable. We were thrilled to welcome people back in person after three years to celebrate this year’s Rebuilding Justice Award and Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award honorees, and to thank you—and many others—who have joined together with IAALS to advance justice we can believe in.
IAALS was proud to give the Rebuilding Justice Award to Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas and Utah attorney John Lund in recognition of their efforts in founding Utah’s Office of Legal Services Innovation. The office provides a safe environment for nontraditional legal service providers to forge the future of law in Utah’s groundbreaking legal regulatory sandbox, the data from which will be evaluated by IAALS as part of our Unlocking Legal Regulation project. With over thirty proposals already approved, including online legal document preparation and criminal expungement assistance, the Office of Legal Services Innovation is poised to help more people of all backgrounds get the legal help they need—and it would not have been possible without Justice Himonas and Lund’s tireless work to make it happen.
At the event, we also presented the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award to two visionaries: Anna Carpenter, professor of law at S.J. Quinney College of Law and project director for presidential initiatives for the University of Utah President’s Office, will receive the inaugural award for her work to innovate legal education, legal services, and civil justice research, along with the recipient of the 2022 award, Rohan Pavuluri, CEO and co-founder of Upsolve, for his work to leverage technology to help those without a lawyer navigate the legal system and, ultimately, achieve economic mobility. 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, and who are early in their legal careers.
