Thu, Feb 02
|Zoom Meeting
2/2 | LSFN Public Interest Law Bar Fellowship: Stakeholder Briefing
- This event is open to broader legal community, including legal service funders, NGOs, CBOs, law students, attorneys, judges, court staff, and others interested in civil legal aid. -
Time & Location
Feb 02, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Zoom Meeting
About
Please join us as we discuss lessons learned & barriers overcome during 2022 and to hear our plans for the program in 2023.
Moderator: Claire M. Solot, Co-Founder, Legal Services Funders Network & Founder & Managing Director, Bigglesworth Family Foundation
*Please note that this program was orginally scheduled for Jan. 26th, but was rescheduled to Feb. 2nd to avoid any conflict with OneJustice's ProBono Conference.
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The LSFN Public Interest Law Bar Fellowship was designed in the Spring of 2020, early in COVID-19 pandemic, to address the emergent capacity needs of Bay Area Legal Services Organizations as well as May, 2020 graduates of Bay Area law schools, who were faced with a delay in their ability to take the California Bar Exam. In 2022, the third year of the program, we were able to place a full cohort of 27 Fellows at legal service organizations in the Bay Area. The 2022 LSFN Fellows cohort is a truly inspiring, diverse group of new lawyers that are already making a difference in the lives of those in our communities most affected by the crises of our time. We couldn’t be more proud, and look forward to sharing their accomplishments. Stakeholder Briefing: 3-4pm PST | Q & A: 4-4:30pm PST
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Regularly, the LSFN will host a funder roundtables to facilitate funder-specific discussions around the ways in which current issue impact the populations served by legal services organizations, and the legal aid organizations themselves. Additionally, we'll discuss legislation being considered to help highly impacted communities, provide information on helpful tools, and explore strategies for funders to support those most affected.