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Family Law, Housing and Consumer Law, Public Benefits)
● Completed presentations and recordings of substantive
law series training for new or transitioning civil legal aid
attorneys.
● Coordinate and convene quarterly meetings for the 5
statewide substantive law task forces to discuss
common issues faced and training needs. Work with
each Task Force to host practice area specific training
annually at LA Justice Community Conference.
● Ongoing development of substantive law trainings with
task forces for the substantive law recorded training
series geared towards new attorneys, the new Justice
Friday CLE trainings have been incorporated into this
project.
o Investigate IFP issues
• Surveyed the legal providers regarding common issues
faced with misapplication of IFP statutes and used
research to substantiate LSLI request to examine.
• With approval of BOG was able to get Louisiana
Legislature (House and Senate) to adopt resolutions
requesting LSLI to examine current IFP statutes.
• ATJ Commission members will participate in Louisiana
State Law Institute meeting scheduled mid-January to
discuss IFP issues

• As stated above, the 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 due to COVID. The bill
has been filed for the 2021 Regular Session, and it
addressed changes that support the work of civil legal
aid advocates.
▪ Partner with Louisiana Bar Foundation to launch Legal Navigator
Program.
o Collaborated with Louisiana Bar Foundation to submit a Justice
For All grant application. If received, the funding will support the
assessment of civil legal aid and social services resources in
Louisiana. This assessment will later be used in developing the
LBF’s Legal Navigator.
o The Louisiana ATJ Commission was awarded a Justice For All
(JFA) grant, a project housed by the National Center for State

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