As natural disasters become more frequent, LSC and First Street Foundation have collaborated to bring HeartlandDisasterHelp.org to life. The website empowers residents across ten states in America’s heartland that have faced significant flooding, windstorms, extreme heat and wildfires over the past decade. Also, legal services providers in Oklahoma and Nebraska share how disasters effect their clients.

Guests:

• Dori Rapaport, Executive Director at Legal Aid Services of Northeastern Minnesota
• David Estep, Supervising Attorney at Legal Aid of West Virginia
• Honorable Jeanne M. Robison, Salt Lake City Justice Court Judge

• Ransom Wydner, Vice President of Pro Bono and Social Impact at SixFifty
• Sam Flynn, Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at Josef

Martha Minow, 300 th Anniversary Professor, Harvard Law School; Co-chair of the Access-to-Justice Board at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Former Harvard Law School Dean; Former LSC Board Member.

Thomas Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School.

William Treanor, Dean and Executive Vice President, Georgetown University Law School; Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair.

Miguel Willis, Innovator in Residence at the University of Penn’s Carey Law School Future of the Profession Initiative (FPI); Executive Director of Access to Justice Tech Fellows.

• Dr. Ana Caskin, deputy medical director of the Health Justice Alliance and director of the Anacostia and Roosevelt School based Health Centers
• Professor Vicki Girard, faculty director of the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance
• Dr. Eileen Moore, medical director of the Health Justice Alliance and associate dean of the Georgetown School of Medicine

Ariadna Godreau Aubert, founder and executive director of Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico

Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz, pro bono and strategic initiatives manager at Pro Bono Net

Linda Anderson Stanley, senior manager for disaster resilience programming at Equal Justice Works Ariadna

In this episode, we’re talking about criminal records – or at least, how to get rid of them. In the U.S. approximately 1/3 of all people have a criminal record. Having a criminal record can affect one’s job, professional licensing, ability to get housing or government benefits and much more. 

While legal aid helps many navigate the, often difficult, process clearing their criminal record, the problem is larger than their capacity. In this episode, host Jason Tashea sits down with legal experts to discuss how technology and policy are changing the ways these records impact peoples lives and how the government can better operate – giving people a second chance.

Legal Experts: Yousef Kassim, founder and CEO of EasyExpunctions, Sarah Esther Lageson, associate professor at Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice, and Noella Sudbury, owner of Sudbury Consulting, LLC.

The speed of innovation in data collection is outpacing the creation of data policies and cybersecurity practices. What are the additional implications to under-served and marginalized communities?

The new report updates and expands on LSC’s 2017 Justice Gap Study, providing a fresh assessment of the state of civil legal justice for low-income Americans. It is particularly timely as it explores the justice gap in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a disproportionate impact on low-income Americans. Its findings paint a stark picture of the overwhelming need for civil legal help in the country, and the need for adequate access and equal justice for all.

LSC leadership and members speaking on this special LSC episode include:

• LSC President Ronald S. Flagg
• LSC Board Chair John G. Levi
• University of Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh, a member of the LSC Leaders Council

Special Guests include: Reginald Turner (president of the American Bar Association); Ronald S. Flagg (President of Legal Services Corporation); and Will A. Gunn (Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel for the Legal Services
Corporation).

Featured Guests: Erika Rickard, project director for civil legal system modernization at the Pew Charitable Trust; Ariel Levinson-Waldman, founding president of Tzedek DC; George Simons, founder and CEO of SoloSuit.

– hosted by Legal Service Corporation President Ron Flagg.

Host: Jason Tashea, LSC Emerging Leaders Council

Host: LSC President Ronald S. Flagg

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Host: Ron Flagg, President of the Legal Services Corporation

Guests:

– Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin

– Doug Peterson, Attorney General of Nebraska

– Karl Racine, Attorney General of the District of Columbia

– Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General of Oregon

– Herbert Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

– Brandon George, Director of Indiana Addiction Issues Coalition

– Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Friends of Research Institute; MSP Staff Physician at the University of California San Francisco

– Brendan Wood, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Legal Aid of West Virginia

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Host: LSC President Ron Flagg

Panelists:

• Teresa Wynn Roseborough, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Home Depot
• Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO, Merck & Co. and co-chair of LSC’s Leaders Council
• David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group
• John F. Schultz, chief operating, legal officer and executive vice-president, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}

Panelists:

• Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5) – co-chair of Congressional Access to Legal Aid Caucus

• Karen Lash – American University Justice Programs Office and former official at DOJ’s Office for Access to Justice

• Elizabeth Werner – managing attorney at Legal Aid of West Virginia

{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}