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The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, based at The George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This Talk Justice episode explores the movement to connect health and justice through medical-legal partnerships, including Kaiser Permanente’s investment in scaling this approach and improving housing stability.

Jason Tashea joins Cat Moon to discuss his recent article “A Research Agenda for Justice Technology,” included in a volume published by the American Bar Foundation called “Global Perspectives on People-Centered Justice, Exploring the Evidence” on Talk Justice. They speak about knowledge gaps and critical areas for expanding research into technology initiatives of the justice system, courts and legal aid organizations.

Leaders of nonprofit law firms in Florida, Massachusetts and Michigan discuss the rise in consumer legal issues on Talk Justice. The Legal Services Corporation has seen that the number of consumer legal cases are growing across the 129 legal services organizations that it funds nationally. From 2024 to 2025, the volume of consumer and finance cases increased by nearly 14%.  Attorneys at these organizations are helping clients fight fraud, challenge predatory lending or unfair debt collection, and navigate bankruptcy and other financial disputes.

Talk Justice  spotlights Kentucky’s efforts to boost the state’s workforce and help people thrive in the aftermath of the opioid epidemic through the Kentucky Comeback initiative. Workforce participation rates in Kentucky have been among the lowest in the nation. In response, the Kentucky Chamber and it's foundation launched the Kentucky Comeback initiative and the Fair Chance Academy to encourage businesses to remove barriers for job seekers in recovery.  Richmond Baking, based in Versailles, Kentucky, was one of the first businesses to participate and has seen amazing results.

A new toolkit provides resources for law firms, legal services organizations and volunteer lawyers interested in providing holistic legal assistance for veterans. Talk Justice brings together some of the experts behind the toolkit's creation to discuss the significant legal needs veterans experience and free legal clinics can address them.

Talk Justice explores American’s desire to “age in place” amidst rising housing instability among seniors and how civil legal services can help.  An AARP expert and the Executuve Director of their affiliate, Legal Counsel for the Elderly (LCE), join to discuss.  AARP found that 75% of people 50 and older want to stay in their homes and communities as they age, though 44% expect to move due to challenges like cost, accessibility and natural disasters. LCE helps seniors avoid evictions through social work and legal representation in Washington, D.C.

This episode was originally published on May 28, 2024. Guests from a successful St. Louis collaboration discuss Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s (LSEM) Neighborhood Advocacy Program on Talk Justice. There are 24,000 vacancies and abandoned properties in St. Louis. LSEM was inspired by Legal Aid of Western Missouri’s Adopt-a-Neighborhood program in Kansas City to start their own revitalization project. In 2018, they launched the Neighborhood Advocacy Program to start tackling the legal problems that create lingering neighborhood blight.

This episode of Talk Justice  explores an Ohio county’s efforts to bring service providers together to ensure that families in crisis receive the help they need. The “No Wrong Door” model is already making big impacts in Washington County, Ohio, where the Family and Children First Council (WCFCFC) is building partnerships that raise awareness of community resources. Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio (LASCO) partners in the effort to help local families.

This episode of Talk Justice  spotlights “justice buses” in Florida, Louisiana and Oklahoma that bring legal help to communities in need, especially in the wake of natural disasters. The guests describe these vehicles, also called Mobile Intake Units, as gamechangers for supporting their local communities and raising awareness.  When lawyers have wheels, legal help can meet clients where they are.

This episode of Talk Justice highlights one Texas nonprofit law firm’s efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) developed three different chatbots to improve internal efficiency, centralize information needed by lawyers, and make legal information more easily accessible for the public. Listen to learn more about LSLA’s AI Chatbot Project, and discover a community of similar organizations working to leverage technology for legal services at lsc.gov/learninglab.

Talk Justice explores the legal battle of a Colorado-born woman with no birth certificate, the roadblocks people without identification and other vital documents experience and how attorneys at civil legal services organizations can help. Legal services attorneys from Louisiana and Colorado discusses how this work supports veterans, survivors of domestic violence, unstably housed people and those impacted by natural disasters.

Holocaust survivor and longtime leader of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky (AppalRed), John Rosenberg, joins Talk Justice this week. LSC President Ron Flagg speaks with Rosenberg about his memories of Nazi Germany, becoming a lawyer in the United States, working for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and eventually earning the trust of his Eastern Kentucky community. Rosenberg’s legal services work spanned almost three decades and impacted countless coal miners and Appalachian families.

Kellye Testy, the executive director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), joins Talk Justice. AALS is a non-profit membership organization, to which 174 law schools belong. Testy spoke to Cat Moon about opportunities for students to contribute to access to justice, the need to integrate evolving technologies into legal education, and degree programs that offer more flexible paths to becoming a lawyer.

American Bar Association (ABA) President Michelle Behnke appears on Talk Justice to discuss America’s 250th anniversary, legal deserts, artificial intelligence (AI), promoting civics awareness among the general public, and building support for civil legal services.

Equal Justice Works CEO Verna Williams discusses her prior experience as a law dean, her work engaging law students and young lawyers in public interest and the inspiration she draws from their passion. As the nation’s largest post-graduate legal fellowship program, Equal Justice Works deploys students and lawyers to legal services organizations across the country. Since its founding in 1986, Equal Justice Works has supported more than 2,700 fellows.