What Lawyers Need to Know About Access to Justice

1101 Harmon Place,Minneapolis MN 55403

16 September, 2021

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The 2021 Fredrikson & Byron Law Firm Lecture in honor of John P. Byron features Rebecca L. Sandefur. Rebecca L. Sandefur investigates access to civil justice from every angle – from how legal services are delivered and consumed, to how civil legal aid is organized around the nation, the role of pro bono, to the relative efficacy of lawyers, nonlawyers and digital tools as advisers and representatives, to how ordinary people think about their justice problems and try to resolve them. She is Professor in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the Access to Justice Research Initiative. Her public service includes her appointment by the Supreme Court of Utah to the state’s Office of Legal Services Innovation, her role as Co-Vice Chair of California’s Closing the Justice Gap Working Group, and her appointment by the Supreme Court of Arizona to the Arizona Commission on Access to Justice. In 2013, Sandefur was the Hague Visiting Chair in the Rule of Law. In 2015, she was named Champion of Justice by the National Center for Access to Justice. In 2018, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on inequality and access to justice. She is currently Editor of Law & Society Review. The Holloran Center's mission is to provide innovative interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, and programs focusing holistically on the formation of both law students and practicing professionals into ethical leaders in their communities. Since its founding in 2006, the Holloran Center has focused on this mission of helping the next generation of lawyers form professional identities grounded in a deep commitment of service to others. The Holloran Center is at the forefront of a growing national movement focused on greater intentionality in the professional formation of law students. The Holloran Center maintains an ever-expanding universe of resources for law school staff and faculty to take the next step in fostering the ethical professional identities of their students. These resources include the ROADMAP to Meaningful Employment, the Holloran Competency Milestones, and the Learning Outcomes and Professional Development Databases. Our hope is that they will be used to create pedagogical tools and assessment mechanisms and processes to support professional identity formation at law schools across the country.