Events, Activities, and Speaking Engagements

Alicia Mitchell-Mercer will join a panel discussing Advocacy, Legislative, and Litigation Strategies at this conference hosted by Arizona State University. The conference explores the growing body of evidence about people’s justice experiences and just solutions to everyday legal problems, with a focus on creating an enabling environment for effective and accessible justice work, empowering new kinds of justice workers, and democratizing access to justice. 

Alicia Mitchell-Mercer will attend IAALs' Unlocking Legal Regulation: Best Practices for Launching & Sustaining Regulatory Innovation convening in Denver Colorado. The IAALS convening is an opportunity to develop best practices and recommendations for launching and sustaining regulatory innovation programs. Learn more. 

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Mitchell-Mercer moderates IAALS' Redesigning Legal panel to discuss access to justice and why to truly combat the access to justice crisis, it will take an entire ecosystem of legal service providers including community advocates and legal aid community justice workers, along with allied legal professionals.

Mitchell-Mercer will attend an IAALS  meeting in Colorado to help create a national limited licensing model.

Presentation to the Catawba County Paralegal Association on access to justice and regulatory reform.

Presentation by Rachel Royal at NALA Conference in Phoenix, AZ on access to justice.

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

NC State Bar Regulatory Subcommittee meeting to Develop Recommendations for Report

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

NC State Bar Regulatory Subcommittee meeting to Develop Recommendations for Report

NC State Bar Regulatory Subcommittee meeting to discuss Legal Needs Assessment

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Alicia Mitchell-Mercer will attend the a convening hosted by the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession of Stanford Law School.  This gathering  brings leaders from across the country to discuss the current issues and challenges surrounding access to civil justice and learn about policy innovations happening in many states to address these challenges.

S.M. Kernodle-Hodges, Alicia Mitchell-Mercer, and Rachel Royal attend The ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference in Dallas, TX. It is an annual gathering of legal services and pro bono advocates to share and learn about developments and innovations in providing legal services to low-income persons. The emphasis of this Conference is on strengthening partnerships among the key players in the civil justice system. 

JFAP's Kernodle-Hodges and Mitchell-Mercer and IAALS' Michael Houlberg, Esq. discuss access to justice and limited licensing. 

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Presentation to the North Carolina Advocates for Justice on access to justice and regulatory reform.

JFAP hosts Meet N' Greet w/ Richard Dietz, Court of Appeals Judge & NC Supreme Court Candidate

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

NC State Bar Regulatory Subcommittee meeting to Develop Recommendations for Report

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

JFAP attends IAALS Justice Dinner in Denver, Colorado to celebrate Rohan Pavuluri and Justice Himonas

Presentation to the N.C. Equal Access to Justice Commission on Limited Licensing.

Rachel Royal will be part of a panel giving a presentation at the 2023 ABA National Meeting of State Access to Justice Commission Chairs ("ATJ Chairs Meeting") in Columbus, Ohio. the ATJ Chairs Meeting will be one of the featured conferences taking place during the new ABA Forum on Building Access to Justice for All. Learn more.

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Rachel Royal and Alicia Mitchell-Mercer give presentation to the National Federation of Paralegal Associations on Access to Justice, initiatives being adopted by various states and the impact on the legal profession. https://www.paralegals.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3283

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JFAP sends legislative proposal authored by Alicia Mitchell-Mercer to North Carolina General Assembly for consideration. Our proposal can be found here.

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Presentation to the Raleigh Wake Paralegal Association on Access to Justice and Regulatory Reform

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Presentation at NCBA PD Annual Meeting on access to justice and regulatory reform.

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

Attend National Regulatory Roundtable to discuss reform in other jurisdictions. 

NC State Bar Regulatory Subcommittee meeting to Develop Recommendations for Report

Presentation to the North Carolina State Bar Regulatory Subcomminttee on Limited Licensing

Publication of the JFAP limited licensing proposal and distribution to the NC Supreme Court and the NC State Bar.