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The RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) and the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, in conjunction with the UCLA School of Law Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession, and the Civil Justice Research Initiative at Berkeley Law cordially invite you to attend this invitation-only policy symposium for policymakers, academics, and legal services providers.
About the Program
In 2019, fifty-five percent of Californians experienced at least one civil legal problem in their household. However, nearly 70 percent of them received no legal help. Courts are seeing an alarming rise in self-represented litigants and an even more alarming crisis of “lumpers,” a term used to describe people who have legal problems but who take no action in the face of those problems.
This symposium will bring together panels of experts and practitioners to discuss unmet legal needs, hear about the variety of policy developments across the country to address those needs, learn about what is working and what isn’t, and unpack critics’ concerns about the loosening of regulations around the practice of law.
We hope you will join us for this event. For more information and to see the agenda, please visit the event website.
Speakers include:
- Keynote Speaker: Hon. Kelli M. Evans, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Hon. Ioana Petrou, Justice, California Court of Appeals; Chair, California Paraprofessional Working Group
- Silvia Argueta, Executive Director, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
- Maggie Goodlander, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
- Francesca Gessner, Chief of Policy, Office of the Attorney General, California
- Erin Levine, Founder and CEO, Hello Divorce
- Hon. Bridget Mary McCormack, President and CEO, American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution and formerly, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
- Brenda Murphy, President, South Carolina NAACP
Space is limited, so please register by January 5, 2024. This event is by invitation only and is not open to the public. Please do not share or distribute this invitation beyond the intended recipient. For further information, contact ICJevents@rand.org.
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