Learning Lab

Advancing Equity, Diversity and Civil Rights in a Shifting Policy Environment

AI-Powered Evidence Review: Strategies From 90+ Public Defender Offices

Artificial Intelligence Best Policy Benchmarks for Increasing Access to Justice in the  States

Bending the Unbendable: The Unsustainable Health Insurance Cost-Curve and Alternative Solutions to Fully Insured Healthcare

Beyond Individual Representation: Group Representation and Neighborhood-Based Legal Advocacy

Beyond the Courtroom: Integrating Forensic Social Work to Strengthen Legal Advocacy and Client Outcomes

Beyond the Traditional Model: Building an Interdisciplinary Legal Aid Practice with Social Workers as Equal Partners

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: A Legal Aid Strategy for Addressing Errors in Application of Medicaid Work Requirements

Bridging Worlds; Making Connections in Crimmigration

Build It Together: An Interdisciplinary Advocacy Model Using Community Science as Legal Strategy

Building a network of community partnerships for awareness and more effective legal services

Building Partnerships to Expand Client Access: Strategies That Work

Challenging the Criminalization of Homelessness to Prevent Evictions and Displacement of Unhoused Tenants

Christopher Simmons Journey - how public defenders, public interest lawyers and community advocates worked together to strike down the juvenile death penalty and consider age in gaining his release.

Civil Legal Aid Coverage Coefficient (CLACC): Using Court and Legal Aid Data In Tandem to Target Services and Investment

Civil Rights Litigation for Public Benefits Participants post- Medina, Casa Inc., and Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

Criminal Courts as Partners in Homelessness Solutions

Crisis Communications: Strategically Align Your Messaging in Turbulent Times

Crossover:  Criminal Defense and Civil Legal Aid Providing Support to Each other and their Communities

Cyber Security Protection for Lawyers in 2026

Defending Against the Criminalization of Abortion Care

Defending the Rights of Vehicle-Sheltered People

Developments and Trends in Lawyer Ethics and Regulation Impacting Legal Aid, Public Defense and Other Equal Justice Practitioners

Educating Legislators About Legal Aid 2.0

Effectively Leveraging Collaborative Models in Disaster Legal Services - Before, During and After Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies

Enforcing and Expanding Due Process for Public and Subsidized Housing Tenants Facing Eviction for Alleged Criminal Activity Through Litigation and Policy Advocacy

Federal Indian Law 101 for Legal Services Professionals

Finding the Ask: Identifying Opportunities for Expert Support

From Chaos to Coordination:  Designing and Launching Effective Disaster Relief Projects

From Crisis to Stability: Integrating Public Benefits Advocacy into Holistic Legal Services for Seniors, Individuals with Disabilities, and Low-Income Communities

From Limited Justice to Defending Futures: the legacy of In Re Gault and Youth Defense Specialization

From Problem to Partner: Building Effective Collaborations with Local Courts

From Scarcity to Abundance: JustOC - A New Model for Cross Sector Collaboration and Innovation

Healing after Harm: The Impact of Integrating Trauma Recovery Centers and Civil Legal Aid

Healing-Centered Justice: Trauma-Informed Legal Representation in Practice

How to Make More Effective State Constitutional Arguments: Tips and Tools for Legal Aid Lawyers and Public Defenders

Improving Legal Outcomes through Interagency Collaboration: Perspectives from the Client, Legal Team, and Community Providers

Integrating Human Rights into Litigation in State and Federal Court

Just Juries: Balancing the Scales of the Jury Box

Keeping the Humans in Human Services: Advocacy strategies in the Age of AI, Algorithms, and Chatbots

Legal Aid & Libraries: Serving the Community Together

Legal Aid Funding Landscape and Roundtable

Legal Check-Ups: Moving Civil Legal Help Upstream Through a Preventative, Community-Based Model

Legal Tools to Fight Fines and Fees

Lessons from Illinois: Reframing Ableist and Agist Language for Lawyers 

Locked Out After Release: Parole, Voting Rights, and the Fight for Full Freedom

LSC Compliance Oversight - Common Compliance Concerns and Recent Trends

Machine Translation & AI-Generated Language Services: Not 'Good Enough' for Justice

Maintaining Engagement and Performance in Times of Social Change

Making Executive Leadership a Team Effort

MAP-IT: Advancing Mitigation in Non-Capital Murder Cases in Texas

Meeting the Moment:  the Right to Counsel for Adults and Children in Immigration

MIE Roundtable for Legal Services Executive Directors and Managers

Naming the Gap: Talking with Clients About Law, Justice, and Reality

“Nothing About Us Without Us: A Real Talk Reckoning on Bias, Stigma, and Power in Client-Centered Advocacy”

Partnering to Prevent Family Separation: How Public Defenders, Civil Legal Aid, and Community Organizations Can Work Together to Keep Families Together

Power to the People: A Holistic Revolution to End Mass Incarceration Through Participatory Defense

Predicting the Financial Benefits of Fines and Fees Reform: Leveraging new research, tools and evaluation to persuade policymakers and drive deeper reform

Prioritizing Recruitment and Retention in a Challenging Funding EnvironmentPrioritizing Recruitment and Retention in a Challenging Funding Environment

Protecting Our Neighbors: The Role of Minnesota Legal Services in Response to Operation Metro Surge

Protecting Your Mission: Malpractice Claim Data and Risk Protection Strategies for Non-Profit Legal Organizations

Reimagining Competence in the Criminal Legal Landscape

Replicate This: How Your Office Can Create Holistic Defense Workload and Capacity Metrics for Data Driven Management and Evidence Based Budgeting

Safeguarding Generational Stability through Estate Planning and Title Clearing Clinics

State of Language Rights: What's New? What's Next?

Strengthening Client Leadership: Building Trust, Partnerships, and Pathways for Impact

The Cost of Waiting: A Documentary Conversation on Pretrial Detention

The Legacy of East St. Louis: Why Cultural Humility Matters in Legal Services

The Power of Collaborative Communication: From a Shared Narrative to Collective Impact

The True Cost of Being Poor in Texas

Threats to Federal Grantees and How to Overcome Them

Tracking Police & Prosecutor Misconduct: How to Build an Infrastructure of Accountability and Why It's Important

Training Community Justice Workers: A Replicable Model for Benefits Advocacy

Unauthorized to Practice? How NH Is Rewriting the Rules on Who Can Help

Using Evidence to Triage Legal Services

Virtually Unlawful: Novel Legal Issues in Post-Pandemic Virtual Education for K-12 Students

We Were All Kids Once: Social Work and Mitigation with Children and Youth

What Does Real Justice Look Like? / A Freedom in Love / Systems Change experience