January 29, 2026

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Data Retention Policy for Legal Services: Keep What You Need, Delete What You Should, Defend What You Keep

Your team didn’t choose legal services because you love filing systems. You chose it to help people through high-stakes moments. But the intake queue grows, staff copy and paste notes across tools, and every year brings a new report, audit, or public records question. Meanwhile, old client data sits everywhere, quietly piling up. Keeping everything […]

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Build a practical data governance policy for justice nonprofits

Build a practical data governance policy for justice nonprofits that protects clients and satisfies funders

The intake queue is growing, a partner needs a quick data pull, and a funder report is due Friday. You open the spreadsheet, then the case system export, then the shared drive folder someone swears is “the real one.” The numbers don’t match, and no one’s sure which version is safe to share. That’s the

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A team working with a fractional CTO for justice support networks

Fractional CTO for Justice Support Networks (Operating Discipline That Stops the Drop-Off)

The intake queue is full. A court navigator program makes a “warm handoff.” A partner says they’ll follow up. Then the trail goes quiet, disrupting access to justice. In justice support networks, that quiet can mean a self-represented litigant missed a deadline, lost housing, returned to harm, or showed up alone to a hearing. These

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12 Remote Interpretation Tools for Legal Nonprofits: A 2026 Field Memo

An intake specialist scrambles. A client with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) is on the line with a time-sensitive issue, but the on-call interpreter is unavailable. The resulting delay leads to a missed deadline, a critical miscommunication, or worse, a denial of service. This scenario isn't a hypothetical; it's an operational reality that widens the justice

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