2026 Pro Bono Coordinators Retreat: Full Schedule

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9:00am PDT

Unbundled: An Effective Bridge to Justice or a Feel-Good Detour?

Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

As the justice gap widens, legal services organizations increasingly turn to unbundled services, both in staff representation and pro bono projects. This session explores different limited scope models, how they meet client needs, how to define and measure success, and best practices for building client-centered unbundled projects, while continuing to engage pro bono attorneys with limited-scope preferences.

Speakers

Jessie Campbell

Directing Attorney - Pro Bono, Lone Star Legal Aid

I am the Directing Attorney for Pro Bono. I love talking all things pro bono, but you will often find me talking about marketing and recruitment. I have been with Lone Star Legal Aid since December 2019. Prior to that, I was the Pro Bono & Outreach Director and staff attorney... Read More →

Lisa Nelsen

Staff Attorney Texas Law Help, Texas Legal Service Center

Native Houstonian Lisa Nelsen has served as a staff attorney on the TexasLawHelp team for 2.75 years. Before joining Texas Legal Services Center, she worked as a staff attorney at the Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy at Thurgood Marshall School of Law for 4.5 years... Read More →

Wednesday September 2, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
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10:15am PDT

TBA

Wednesday September 2, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am PDT

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Speakers

Joshua Weaver

Wednesday September 2, 2026 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
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11:30am PDT

Free Legal Answers Luncheon

Wednesday September 2, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT

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The Interactive Free Legal Answers Luncheon will be in a clinic format. Participants will first learn about Texas Free Legal Answers, a pro bono project run by Texas Legal Services Center and the American Bar Association. Texas Free Legal Answers is a website where income-qualifying Texans can ask for advice from a licensed Texas attorney at no cost to the user. After a short presentation about the project, participants will break into small groups to begin answering legal questions on the website together and join in friendly competition to see which group can answer the most questions.

Before the clinic, attorneys who have not already created a Texas Free Legal Answers account will need to register at https://texas.freelegalanswers.org/Attorneys/Account/Agreement. It takes about 2 minutes to fill out the information needed for registration. Each attorney will receive additional information and training resources once the registration is approved.

If you are not an attorney, you can still participate! The clinic will be conducted in small groups, so non-attorneys will be able to assist attorneys in drafting answers to questions.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions about Texas Free Legal Answers here. NOTE: For this project, malpractice insurance is provided by the ABA for all communications within the portal.

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