Scale Justice’s Upstream Approach to Access to Justice (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: The courts are, in many ways, the kind of locus for a lot of this, right? It's where this all happens and occurs, and legal aid usually ends up there, and people usually end up there, and they're a downstream actor in many ways. What's been great about Scale Justice is that we have an opportunity to still work with courts, and we do, but we can also move upstream a little bit more as well. We can get to some of those groups, or even, frankly, groups that aren't focused on the legal, but work with them to help identify legal issues and needs within their communities or populations, so that you can identify them earlier, and get help earlier, and connect to resources earlier. Courts are wonderful, but they're situated where they are on purpose, and that means that, to a degree, you only have so much control over what you can do within that sphere, and there's a lot you can do, don't get me wrong, and I've tried, and I think others have done a lot of really great work, but being able to more fully embrace that spectrum, I think, at Scale Justice, with legal aid, and community groups, and courts, to me feels like the place to be when you want to make a huge impact when it comes to increasing access to justice.