In November, the organization Frontline Justice The Justice Worker was launched to address the growing access to justice crisis. The organization’s ambitious goal is to have justice workers in all 50 US states by the year 2035.
The impressive founding team includes Rebecca Sandefur, one of the world’s leading scholars on access to justice (who was on LawNext in 2020; Matthew Burnett, Senior Program Officer for the Access to Justice Research Initiative of the American Bar Foundation Jim Sandman, President emeritus (on) of the Legal Services Corporation LawNext in 2019); There are many other names that deserve mention.
In this episode of LawNext Bob Ambrogi, the host is joined by Nikole Nelson is the CEO of Frontline Justice. Nelson was executive director at Frontline Justice before joining the company in November. Alaska Legal Services Corporation where she played a key role in the launch of a statewide project for community justice workers that won the World Justice Challenge 2019. She also played a key role in the Alaska Supreme Court rule changes in 2022 that allowed justice workers under Alaska Legal…
