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

• Amy Cho, U of I College of Law (2021 Summer Extern)