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Coalition Data Sharing Agreements For Justice Coalitions: A Practical Guide

Courts, legal aid groups, community organizations, and service providers are sitting on pieces of the same story. Someone cycles through the criminal justice system, from arraignment to jail, shelter, and clinics. Their data lives in four or five systems. No one sees the full picture in time to change the outcome. That is where data […]

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From Chaos to Clarity: A Guide to Nonprofit Website Redesign for Legal Services

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That website redesign you’ve been putting off is more than a cosmetic fix. It’s an operational upgrade. For a legal services nonprofit, this isn’t about chasing trends. It’s a strategic move to fix broken internal workflows, lock down sensitive client data, and build a reliable digital backbone for your mission. The truth is, your website

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What Is Legal Technology? A Plain-Language Guide For Justice Organizations

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Legal technology, or legal tech, is the software and digital tools that support legal professionals. It helps them deliver, manage, and access legal services more easily, especially in high-stakes areas like immigration, incarceration, and youth justice. Think case management systems, document automation, client portals, and newer AI tools that support drafting and research. For leaders

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Board Cyber Risk Briefings For CEOs Who Hate Tech Jargon

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Do your eyes glaze over when the “cyber update” slide hits the board deck? You are not alone. Many CEOs and executive directors quietly dread those five minutes. Acronyms, charts, and fear-filled headlines, all wrapped in language that feels closer to an operating manual than a leadership decision. Yet you still sign the contracts, attest

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Aligning IT With Business Strategy: A Pragmatic Guide for Justice-Focused Organizations

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How to Build a One Page Technology Strategy Your Executive Team Actually Follows

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You should not need a 40-page deck just to keep your systems from falling apart. If you lead a justice-focused organization, you already carry huge complexity. Scattered case data. Fragile reporting. Security worries that sit in the back of your mind at night. A heavy strategy document no one reads will not help. A simple

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From Spreadsheets To Shared Data: How Justice-Focused Nonprofits Data Management Can Unify Case And Program Records

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Most justice-focused nonprofits were never meant to run on spreadsheets forever. Yet intake, clinics, trainings, and grant outcomes often sit in tabs and shared drives that only a few people really understand. When funders, boards, or partners ask simple questions, staff scramble. Exports, copy‑paste, late nights. People worry about privacy but do not feel they

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Free Your Team: Using Automation to Reduce Repetitive Staff Tasks in Legal Orgs

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The end of the quarter is looming. A critical grant report is due, and your program manager—the one who should be coaching partners—is buried in spreadsheets, manually piecing together data from three different systems. This isn’t a failure of your team. It’s a symptom of a deeper problem: your mission has outgrown the fragile systems

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Building a Data Breach Response Plan for Justice Organizations

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A data breach is simple to describe and hard to live through. It involves unauthorized access to information someone should not see, copy, or share. That could be a lost laptop, a compromised email account, or a system quietly siphoning data in the background. For justice organizations, a data breach response plan for justice organizations

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Smarter Intake, Fairer Access: Eligibility Screening Tools for Legal Aid

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Eligibility screening tools for legal aid sound technical, but they sit right in the middle of your mission. They shape who gets through the door amid pressing client needs like housing issues, lockouts, or benefit terminations, who gets referred out, and how fast staff can respond when client wait times are already too long. For

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