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■      The State Bar develops resources to ensure optimum funding of civil legal aid
                                 providers.
                                     ▪  Facilitate the work of the Technology Committee and Disaster and IFP
                                         Committees;
                                         ATJ Commission chair obtained input from IFP Committee members
                                         as LSLI revised IFP statutes and sent a bill with those revisions to the
                                         legislature. The bill did not move through the legislature because of the
                                         truncated session. The bill has been filed for the 2021 Regular Session
                                         and has successfully moved through the House and Senate.
                                         Members of the Technology Committee meeting monthly to discuss
                                         funding and grant opportunities.
                                     ▪  Assess technical capacities of civil legal aid providers;
                                         Technology Committee developed assessment tool to determine
                                         statewide capacities.
                                     ▪  Assess statewide technology needs of the Civil Justice Community
                                         and develop priority list of possible initiatives and projects;
                                         Technology Committee evaluated a list of potential initiatives and
                                         projects from Civil Justice Community partners and will identify one or
                                         two projects to recommend to the ATJ Commission for development.
                                         Learning Management System is being developed by providers and
                                         Lagniappe Law Lab. LearnUpon has been selected as the learning
                                         management system, and now working on the implementation phase,
                                         starting with onboarding materials.
                                     ▪  Assess training needs and develop appropriate resources;
                                            o  Host annual Louisiana Justice Community Conference
                                                The 2020 conference, originally scheduled in-person in
                                                October, was held online Dec 2-4 through a virtual platform,
                                                Pathable with increased attendance and national presenter
                                                participation. All CLEs were recorded and made available. 2021
                                                conference held online October 14-15. Introducing Justice
                                                Fridays which will include online training for public interest
                                                attorneys throughout the year. Completed the first Justice
                                                Friday event on October 22, 2021 followed by November 5 and
                                                November 12 dates planned. Our 2022 Spring Justice Fridays
                                                series launched on May 20th to June 17th. The series
                                                consisted of 4 Justice Fridays training days and each training
                                                day offered 3 hours of CLE credit. The events were held in-
                                                person and online in the following cities, Lafayette, Baton
                                                Rouge, and New Orleans.Training event held in collaboration
                                                with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and
                                                Emergency Preparedness in Baton Rouge. Justice Fridays will
                                                take the place of the 2022 Justice Conference. This year we
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