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...
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...
On June 6th, the CBF Justice Entrepreneurs Project welcomed its nineteenth cohort into the program. These three attorneys— Nick Hafen, Kadijah Hall, and Braden Tilghman —are eager to start...
As part of their ongoing Equity series, which this month focuses on law, Crain’s Chicago Business is featuring an op-ed from several CBF leaders to emphasize the commitment and responsibility of our...
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...