One of the silver linings of the pandemic was the heightened attention at all levels of government around the issue of evictions and how to better prevent them. There have been unprecedented...
With last month’s brief introduction to behavioral economics in the access to justice context as a backdrop, I want to turn this month to some concrete steps we can take to make the legal system...
This year marks my 7th annual resolution for our legal profession, and while it may not be as catchy as prior ones like my 2022 resolution that the bar exam must go (and it still needs to go!), this...
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,...
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...
A comprehensive new study of the legal aid community in Illinois conducted by Mercer for the CBF gives a sobering yet inspiring view of what it is like to be a legal aid lawyer today and what we can...