as some landlords pursued avenues outside the court system for forcing tenants out. Legal experts discuss the problem of illegal eviction and its role in housing instability on the latest episode of LSC's “Talk Justice” podcast.

Host: Cat Moon, director of innovation design, Vanderbilt Law School

Guests: M. Nalani Fujimori Kaina, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and Bob Glaves, Executive Eirector, The Chicago Bar Foundation.

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

Guests Include:

• 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.

Guests:

• Colleen F. Shanahan, Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School; Founder of Columbia Law School’s Community Advocacy Lab
• Anna Carpenter, Professor of Law, Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Senior Director, Presidential Initiatives, Office of the President, University of Utah; Founder and Director of the Justice Lab at Utah College of Law
• Alyx Mark, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University.

Article: “America’s Lawyerless Courts,” written by Anna E. Carpenter, Colleen F. Shanahan, Alyx Mark and Jessica Steinberg.

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.

Justice.

• 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, founder and CEO of Rasa Public Benefit Corporation.

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?

Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council, hosts the Talk Justice conversation with guests Zach Zarnow, principal court management consultant for the National Center for State Courts (NCSC); Jeff Harvey, CEO of Community Legal Services in Florida; and Shauna Dillavou, CEO of data security service Brightlines. 

The digitization of the justice system far outpaces the creation of data protection policies. This has consequences for how data is used and what cybersecurity measures protect it. Courts and legal services providers are often left to decide for themselves how to appropriately handle vast amounts of virtual case data. This sensitive information concerning the individuals involved could have wide-ranging negative effects on their lives if shared, stolen or sold. 

Generally, court proceedings are public, but that meaning has shifted. 

“What does it mean to be public? I think when the laws were written around what is public and an open court, there wasn’t a public that was global in your pocket...that’s probably not the public we were meant to have in our open courts,” says Dillavou.  

The individuals who interface with the courts likely have no real understanding of how their information is collected and stored, and where that information may go. Harvey says that for lawyers to low-income people in need of legal assistance, consent isn’t straightforward, either. Lawyers explain to their clients that in order to give free legal services, they have to provide information to their funders, but people facing crises like eviction or domestic violence aren’t usually concerned with, or even thinking about, the privacy implications of this data sharing. 

When your participation in the legal system is compulsory, the destination of your data is out of your hands. This puts the courts in a powerful position, with a great deal of responsibility. 

“The courts have users that they don’t pick, but their users don’t pick them either, so they have a duty to be really thoughtful about this, and make sure that when they’re talking about terms of service and contracts that they’re discussing data privacy: does the vendor have access to this or not? Can we control whether they have access to it or not?” says Zarnow. “As we’ve accelerated digital adoption, we ’ve really moved into a new era, particularly for the courts—these are the kinds of questions you can’t afford not to ask anymore.”

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 

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

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{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

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- 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

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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

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{produced by the Legal Services Corporation}