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We are incredibly excited to announce that Dr. Alicia Mitchell-Mercer has joined Frontline Justice as our Chief Operations Officer. With 20 years in the legal field and over a decade in project management, Alicia is a well-known and dedicated advocate for the need to expand the universe of people who can provide legal help.
Want to stay in the loop? We've just released our July edition of the Frontline Justice Exchange, a monthly newsletter dedicated to sharing justice worker updates, helpful resources, and news from across the field.
Our next Community Café event will take place on August 6th from 11:30AM to 1:00 PM PT / 2:30 to 4:30 PM EST. We invite you to RSVP by filling out this Zoom registration link. Following your positive feedback regarding the event’s format, we will feature a guest speaker, Jaycee Uchida, Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Aid of Hawaiʻi, who will tell us about Hawai'i's unique and promising Rural Paternity Advocate program. We will also have opportunities for small group discussion and networking.
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On Tuesday, July 9th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled “Closing the Justice Gap: How to Make the Civil Justice System Accessible to All Americans.” This marked the first such hearing in over 15 years.
Nikole Nelson, Frontline Justice CEO, testified alongside Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Frontline Justice’s National Leadership Council Member; Ron Flagg, President of the Legal Services Corporation; and Veronica Gonzalez, a former legal aid client who now sits on the board of directors of Legal Aid Chicago.
We are excited to announce that Frontline Justice will begin developing tech-enabled tools to supercharge community justice workers in ways that empower economic mobility. A big thank you to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the catalytic investment that will make this possible.
Thank you all so much for joining Frontline Justice for our first Community Cafe event earlier today! The event was very well-attended and we are looking forward to our next one. We invite you to join Frontline Justice's next Community Café on July 1st from 11:30AM to 1:00 PM PT / 2:30 to 4:30 PM EST. RSVP by filling out this survey link.
Frontline Justice is excited to announce the Grand Opening of the Frontline Justice Community Cafe Series on May 28th - a virtual space for us to come together to share joys and concerns and to strengthen community ties.
Director Rachel Rossi of the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ) traveled to Tempe, Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona, to attend the Access to Justice and Future of Justice Work Conference, sponsored by Frontline Justice.
Frontline Justice is proud to sponsor the Access to Justice and the Future of Justice Work Conference, co-organized by Frontline Justice co-founders Rebecca Sandefur and Matthew Burnett at Arizona State University.
Frontline Justice Founding CEO Nikole Nelson joins LSC President Ron Flagg for a conversation about using community justice workers to expand access to legal services on Talk Justice.
Frontline Justice submitted comments supporting the Texas Access to Legal Services Working Group's recent recommendations related to authorizing justice workers.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable has issued a report titled "Access to Justice in Federal Administrative Proceedings" which highlights non-lawyer assistance as a key strategy to increase access to justice in the United States. The report spotlights Alaska's Community Justice Worker Program as a model for expanding high-quality non-lawyer assistance.