By Jake Hertz, Program Associate
As a new employee at Pro Bono Net, I attended the Task Force to Expand Civil Legal Services in New York’s Second Annual Conference on Access to Justice and Law Schools as something of an outsider insider. I was in the legal services world, but not yet of it. My
Pro Bono Net staffers Mirenda Watkins and Adam Friedl share their top takeaways from the Equal Justice Conference, which they both attended (and presented at) for the first time this year.
Mirenda Watkins
Since joining the Pro
Last summer, I attended a 1st birthday party for a close friend’s daughter named Joi. I remembered visiting my friend and baby Joi in the hospital a few days after Joi was born. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to watch Joi grow and am reminded of the importance of taking a
As we blogged about last month, Pro Bono Net was well-represented at LSC’s 2013 TIG Conference in Jacksonville, FL with Claudia Johnson, Mirenda Watkins, Xander Karsten, Jillian Theil, Tony Lu, Jim Wiegand and I attending and presenting several workshops. In addition, Pro Bono Net Executive Director, Mark O’Brien attended LSC’s Summit on the Use of
This past summer, Pro Bono Net engaged a graduate student from the University of Michigan School of Information to run a usability study on one of our programs, LawHelp Interactive (LHI), in the New York Courts. The graduate consultant, Yanting Zhang, summarized her findings in an earlier blog post. LawHelp Interactive allows low-income
“Libraries are everywhere … this is a partnership we should encourage.” – Glenn Rawdon, Program Counsel for Technology, Legal Services Corporation
This statement is one of the cornerstones of the Libraries and Access to Justice Webinar Series, a training series 
developed by Pro Bono Net that kicked off on September 13th. More
I love the time of year when the National Center for State Courts’ publication Future Trends in State Courts comes out. This annual publication is well read and well respected in the court community.
I love reading the new issue of this publication for a lot of reasons—the main one being that I, not