U.S. Department
of Justice
LAIR News, Blogs, and Events
Webinar: Access to Justice through Data and Research
Thursday, January 16, 2025
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
The Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR), staffed and directed by the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ), is hosting a webinar to discuss the findings from the 2024 LAIR Report: Access to Justice through Data and Research. The speakers will discuss a people-centered approach to leveraging federal data to strengthen program design, implementation, and evaluation and advance access to justice. The speakers will also outline relevant federal data-sharing resources available to the public.
Past Events and Webinars
The Office for Access to Justice (ATJ) and White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR) hosted a webinar on July 9, 2024, as a follow-up to LAIR’s April 25, 2024 webinar.
The webinar featured speakers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with various external experts:
- Allie Yang-Green, DOJ ATJ, LAIR Executive Director
- Nikhil Ramnaney, DOJ ATJ, Senior Counsel
- Christine Lamble, HHS Children’s Bureau, Child Welfare Program Specialist
- Allison Green, Legal Director, National Association of Counsel for Children
- Karen A. Lash, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Justice Lab
- Silvia Argueta, Executive Director, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Speakers addressed outstanding questions from the previous webinar and additional topics relating to accessing federal resources for legal aid, including discussion of Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRA), funding opportunities under Title IV-E, and federal funding for public defense.
The Office for Access to Justice (ATJ) and White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR) hosted a webinar on April 25, 2024, to discuss federal funding that supports civil legal aid programs. The webinar included remarks from:
- ATJ Director Rachel Rossi
- LAIR Executive Director Allie Yang-Green
- Montana Legal Services Association Executive Director Alison Paul
- Senior Fellow at the Georgetown Justice Lab Karen Lash
The speakers discussed the importance of civil legal aid programs in achieving various federal goals—including promoting housing stability, supporting Veterans, and expanding access to healthcare—and, in turn, the crucial role of federal funding in enabling those legal services providers to address legal needs. The webinar covered the basics of identifying, applying for, and using federal grants that support legal assistance. It also highlighted LAIR’s new web resource, which identifies more than 120 potential funding sources for legal assistance and related services across the federal government.
The Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR) and Legal Services Corporation hosted a webinar on January 29, 2024, to discuss the findings from the 2023 LAIR Report, which examined the challenges people face in federal administrative proceedings and posed strategies to address these barriers.
Panelists included Allie Yang-Green, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable; Laura Tuggle, Executive Director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services; Vivek Maru, Chief Executive Officer of Namati; and Alyssa Silberman, Senior Attorney at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ronald Flagg, President of the Legal Services Corporation, moderated the panel, which also featured welcome remarks from Rachel Rossi, Director of the Office for Access to Justice.
Blogs and News
By LAIR Executive Director Allie Yang-Green, Todd Venook, and Justin Brooks
By Allie Yang-Green, Executive Director, Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable