2022 Legal Aid Recruitment and Retention Study
The CBF worked with Mercer Consulting on a comprehensive new study of recruitment and retention of lawyers and advocates in our legal aid community that was released in July, 2022. This study builds off a groundbreaking study the CBF did back in 2006 and identifies both significant challenges and real opportunities for our community to recruit and retain a diverse, talented, and dedicated group of legal aid advocates to serve as the backbone for the broader efforts to ensure access to justice. Read the study.
2022 Legal Aid Recruitment/Retention Study Advisory Committee
- Margaret Benson, CVLS
- Mallory Littlejohn, CAASE
- Oi Eng Crandus, Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
- Catalina Salley, National Immigrant Justice Center
- Ashley Olson, Ascend Justice
- Kate Shank, Legal Aid Chicago
- Kenya Garrett Burnett, Legal Council for Health Justice
- Patrick Keenan-Devlin, Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
- Maureen Kieffer, Loyola University School of Law
- Shaye Loughlin, DePaul University College of Law
- Aaron Hanford, Prairie State Legal Services
- Calvin Hwang, Land of Lincoln Legal Aid
- Candice Stearns, Land of Lincoln Legal Aid
- Shirley Sierra, Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
- Susan Shulman, North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic
Consultant
- Megan Connolly, Mercer
CBF Liaisons
- Bob Glaves
- Sang Yup Lee
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- Amy Cho, U of I College of Law (2021 Summer Extern)