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FRONTLINE JUSTICE is SUPERCHARGing A MOVEMENT OF JUSTICE WORKERS

Frontline Justice is a national, non-partisan organization with a mission to mobilize, support, and equip trusted community advocates to become frontline legal helpers—justice workers who ensure that all Americans have access to affordable and effective support for accessing justice on everyday matters.

Frontline Justice and its partners are transforming access to justice by:

Policy Advocacy

We advocate for expanding unauthorized practice of law carveouts that allow community helpers who aren’t attorneys to meet their community’s basic, but pressing legal needs.

Evidence-based Best Practices

Our research team delivers data-driven learnings to spur policy change that supports justice workers.

Workforce development

We serve as a resource for scalable, evidence-based training and credentialing standards to grow the justice worker movement.

Innovate & Centralize Resources

We foster community and are a support hub that will scale up community justice workers’ efficiency and impact.

Our 10-Year Goal

By 2035, Frontline Justice envisions a future where everyone, no matter their background or location, can access the legal help they need. We're working to establish a nationwide network of community justice workers, ensuring that people facing legal challenges no longer have to navigate them alone. Too often, low-income and marginalized communities are left without solutions to critical legal issues. By expanding the reach of community justice workers, we aim to build a justice system that is fairer, more accessible, and better equipped to serve all Americans.

Progress to date

As of

today

,

#

states have passed or

proposed rules for authorizing justice worker programs

and

many more

are actively developing them.

state programs details

The data presented here is for informational purposes only and may not be accurate or up to date. Users are encouraged to verify all details independently, as we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the data.

We are building a team across party, region, background, discipline, sector, and beyond.

Co-Chairs

John Bridgeland

Co-Chair

Co-Chair

Rebecca Sandefur

Co-Founder & Co-Chair

Team

CEO

Matthew Burnett

Co-Founder & Senior Advisor

James J. Sandman

National Leadership Council Chair

Alicia Mitchell-Mercer

COO

Program Coordinator

Innovation Team Lead

Advisors

Advisor

Advisor

National lEadership Council Members

Justice Brett Busby

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Senior Counsel at Sidney Austin; LSC Board Chairman

Justice Jennifer Henderson

Associate Justice Alaska Supreme Court

Lucretia Murphy, J.D., Ph.D.

Vice President, Center for Justice and Economic Advancement, Jobs for the Future

Founder and Executive Chair of Share Our Strength, No Kid Hungry Campaign

Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute

General Pete Chiarelli

Former Vice Chief of Staff, Army

First Disability Rights Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Pro Bono Partner, DLA Piper US LLP

Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Judicial Engagement

Executive Vice President, SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

Andrew Friedman

Founding Director, NYU School of Law Initiative for Community Power

Bethany Hamilton, JD

Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, Milken Institute School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, The George Washington University

Justice Melissa Hart

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court; Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Law School and DU Sturm College of Law

Chief Justice Nathan Hecht

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Founder & Executive Director, Beyond Legal Aid

Justice Wallace B. Jefferson

Partner, Alexander Dubose & Jefferson, LLP; Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

CEO, Responsible Business Initiative for Justice

Charles Kamasaki

Visiting Scholar, Cornell Law School; Senior Advisor, UnidosUS; and Fellow, Migration Policy Institute

Joseph Kennedy III

Special Envoy for Northern Ireland

Erica Teasley Linnick

Vice President, State Infrastructure Fund, NEO Philanthropy

Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH

CEO, HealthBegins

CEO, Namati

Former President and CEO, Public Welfare Foundation; Senior Fellow, Georgetown Justice Lab

Justice Bridget McCormack

Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Michigan

Kimberly Merchant

Senior Director of Advocate Resources and Training, Shriver Center on Poverty Law

Partner, Locke Lord LLP

Dr. Robert Onders

Medical Director, Maniilaq Health Center

President, National Domestic Workers Alliance

General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Ascendium Education Group, Inc.

William (Bill) Alvarado Rivera

Senior Vice President, Litigation, AARP Foundation

Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Justice Innovation, Georgetown Law Center

Founder & CEO, UNITE; Chairman, Special Olympics; Chairman, C.A.S.E.L.

Vice President, Civil Legal Services and Strategic Policy Initiatives, National Legal Aid and Defender Association

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School; Affiliated Faculty, University of Minnesota Law School

Sacha Steinberger

Founder & Co-Executive Director, Legal Link

Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice

Director of Immigrant Integration at UnidosUS

Chair & Director, Georgetown Center on Faith and Justice