CBA Record

Chicago Bar Foundation Report

A Year of Impact That You Made Possible By Angelika Labno CBF Administrative and Communications Coordinator T hanks to your generous support of the CBF, 2014 saw impressive progress in the fight to make the

justice system more fair and accessible for everyone in our community. You can be proud of the impact you are making through your Foundation. Below are just a few highlights, and you can learn more about this important work and how you can get more involved by visiting chica- gobarfoundation.org. Thank you again for coming together with your colleagues from throughout the legal community to make a difference. Justice Starts with a Solid Foundation. Keep Yours Strong. You can make more of this great work possible through a donation to the CBF. A gift today or a recurring gift of any size will go a long way toward making the justice system more ac- cessible for people in need. More information about the different ways you can contribute and continue to ensure that our legal system is more fair and efficient for everyone is available at chicagobarfoundation.org/support. Thank you for your continued generous support in making the CBF’s work possible.

JEP participants collaborate in the program’s office space at 208 S. Jefferson. Working in a shared location encourages peer mentoring, collaboration and collective innovation.

JEP Takes Flight The CBF’s Justice Entrepreneurs Project is an incubator program for recent law school graduates to start innovative law practices providing affordable legal services to low- and moderate-income people. Thanks to your support, JEP already has become a national model and received significant local and national media attention over the course of 2014. The year ended with the first 10 JEP lawyers completing the pro- gram and continuing their practices as the first alumni members of the JEP network. Twenty-Eight more dedicated and entre- preneurial lawyers are now in the program, building innovative law practices to provide much-needed legal help to a large segment of our community who too often do not

have meaningful access to affordable help in the traditional legal market. To learn more about the JEP or to con- nect with a JEP lawyer, visit jepchicago.org.

New Resource Center in Daley Center

Amajor undertaking last year was working with the Circuit Court and other part- ners to open the Circuit Court of Cook County’s Resource Center for People Without Lawyers in the Daley Center. The center fully opened in April 2014 and is a major milestone in the longer-term effort to make the court systemmore user- friendly and accessible for people without lawyers, a key goal of both the CBF and the Circuit Court.

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