The genesis for the tongue-in-cheek headline for this post is a great book I read earlier in the year by Michael Schur, who was the creator of the television series The Good Place. In the book,...
How to be Perfect—the Lawyer Version
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Football and Access to Justice, Part Deux
By Bob Glaves | CBF Executive Director Football is back and off to a rousing start (we even had the butt punt last weekend!), and one of the storylines playing out at the start of the season has...
Does It Really Matter?
By Bob Glaves | CBF Executive Director As we honored seven outstanding lawyers and judges at this year’s CBA/CBF Pro Bono and Public Service Awards Luncheon, we continued a recent tradition by...
How Did Legal Services Get So Unaffordable, and What Are We Going to Do About It?
By Bob Glaves | CBF Executive Director Over the past 50 years, we gradually have gone from a time in our country where the average middle-class person or small business generally could find...
An Innovation Playbook for Access to Justice
By Bob Glaves | CBF Executive Director Over the past several posts, I’ve given an overview of innovation and talked about when it does and does not make sense in the quest to improve access to...
Innovation, Part 2: It’s Not Just About Technology
There are many myths and misconceptions about innovation, and one of the biggest is conflating the term with technology. As I talked about in last month’s part 1 of this post, technology indeed has...