Frontline Justice submits public comment on the Supreme Court of Texas's Preliminary Approval of Rules Governing Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals and Licensed Court-Access Assistants.
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Are you passionate about helping others navigate legal challenges? Do you or someone you know work as a Community Justice Worker (CJW), providing legal support in areas like elder care, accessing public benefits, or drafting wills?
If so, we’d love to invite you to our upcoming Community Café on Monday, October 28, at 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT.
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Join Us at the Frontline Justice NLADA Community Justice Workers Pre-Conference in Atlanta, GA on November 12th!
RSVP by October 16th!
Want to stay in the loop? We've just released our September edition of the Frontline Justice Exchange, a bi-monthly newsletter dedicated to sharing justice worker updates, helpful resources, and news from across the field.
Frontline Justice is incredibly excited to welcome Rachel Royal, CP, NCCP to the Frontline Justice team! Rachel Royal is the new Program Coordinator at Frontline Justice. Click below to read more.
Do you help people get SNAP, Social Security, or Veteran's benefits? Are you helping people with legal issues related to immigration processes or in subsidized housing programs by HUD like Section 8? Do you work with a low-income taxpayer clinic?
If so, we invite you to register for our next Community Café event on September 11 from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm ET/11:30 am - 1:00 am PT! Click below for more info.
Grace Stewart of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council recently published a deep dive on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Closing the Justice Gap: How to Make the Civil Justice System Accessible to All Americans.” Click below to read an analysis of the four testimonies given by stakeholders: Legal Services Corporation President Ronald Flagg; board member and former client of Legal Aid Chicago Veronica Gonzalez; Chief Justice Nathan Hecht of the Supreme Court of Texas; and Nikole Nelson, CEO of Frontline Justice.
Frontline Justice applauds the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Access to Justice Commission for their groundbreaking decision to license paraprofessionals and court-access assistants. This initiative is an important milestone in expanding access to legal services across Texas and echoes the state's longstanding motto of "Friendship" by offering much-needed support to underserved communities.
Frontline Justice is excited to announce our new Innovation Team Lead, Celine Ta. Click below for Celine's bio!
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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.
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.
Frontline Justice (www.frontlinejustice.org) is seeking proposals from qualified social innovation firms to help it design and develop an innovation platform and conduct user research and design aimed at scaling and sustaining community justice worker innovations in the United States, with a focus on reducing barriers and increasing opportunities for economic mobility among people with low incomes.
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.
On behalf of the co-chairs and team at Frontline Justice, we are thrilled to announce Nikole Nelson as the founding CEO of Frontline Justice!