News Tag: Incubator
June 26, 2019
New Incubator Launches in Colorado with Helping Hand from the CBF
Earlier this month, the CBF and our Justice Entrepreneurs Project (JEP) gained a new partner in the cause with the official launch of the Legal Entrepreneurs for Justice (LEJ) incubator in Denver.
Over the years since the CBF developed and launched the JEP, one of our goals for the program has been to identify successful […]
Tags: Incubator | JEP | Legal Innovation read more ...March 23, 2017
JEP Shares Ideas, Lessons Learned at National Conference
Justice Entrepreneurs Project attorneys Magda Derisma, Sonny Thatch, Alyease Jones, and Cliff Helm joined JEP Director Trevor Clarke in Fort Worth, Texas, for the Fourth Annual Access to Justice through Legal Incubators and Nonprofit Law Firms conference. As in years past, the JEP played a prominent role at the three day conference, adding our voices to plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and breakout groups. The JEP is the largest incubator in the country, responsible for the most incubator participants and alumni (objectively), and the most successful and innovative firms (subjective, yes, but we haven’t heard of any challengers). As such, the JEP has learned a lot, and has a lot to share, about meeting the needs of low and moderate income people through new models of legal service delivery.
Tags: Incubator | JEP | Legal Innovation read more ...March 2, 2016
How the JEP Helped One Lawyer Achieve Her Dream
Joanna Long, an alum of the CBF’s Justice Entrepreneurs Project (JEP), was featured on “In Their Own Words,” a series by the American Bar Association that highlights lawyers from around the country sharing the benefits of incubator project.
Tags: Incubator | JEP | Legal Innovation read more ...May 6, 2015
JEP Featured at ABA National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services
Terri Mascherin of Jenner & Block LLP and chair of the Justice Entrepreneurs Project steering committee, gave a featured presentation about the JEP at the ABA National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services.
Tags: Incubator | JEP | Legal Innovation read more ...February 18, 2014
TCR Talks: Filling the justice gap
The Chicago Reporter
By Charlotte Lait
read at The Chicago Reporter
The downturn in the economy spurred a litany of legal issues for those caught in its grasp. As a result, requests for legal aid and the percentage of self-represented cases has skyrocketed.
Legal aid organizations offer free services to clients who fall under an income threshold. According […]
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