Claudia Johnson

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About Claudia Johnson

Claudia works on improving how legal services are staffed, organized, and provided to vulnerable and low income communities. Claudia's focus is on designing tech in the context of of partnership and collaboration across multiple type of agencies. This includes consumer centric, ethical, and responsible services online and with similar agencies. Claudia is a thought leader, innovator, and a doer. At at Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland she created the Legal Advice Line, a model legal helpline providing counsel and advice across seven counties in five languages. While at the Bar Association of San Francisco, she created the lawyer of the day project in eviction court in San Francisco, a model now adopted in other states. She started the Language Access Project at CLS, Philadelphia. She is a founding member of the National Language Access Advocacy Network (NLAAN). LawHelp Interactive was recognized by the NY Times in this I Claudia helped draft the LEP Court Standards approved in 2012 by the ABA. Claudia helped draft the Best Practices on E-filing for SRLs. Claudia reviews articles for the NCSC Future Trends in State Courts Journal, and is a guest blogger with Richard Zorza on and Pro Bono Net’s blog, She is a frequent speaker on language access issues, cultural competency technology, innovation and applications to new delivery systems. She advises the ATJ Tech Fellows creating a pipeline of diverse attorneys graduating with hands on tech Claudia is teaching Con Law and American Legal Systems at WWU Center for Law Diversity and Justice at the Fairhaven Campus. She also teaches at Penn Carey Law as an adjunct, and does public speaking on similar topics. Claudia started her legal career as a Skadden Fellow. She is holds her undergrad and graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and her law degree is from University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was a PIAA fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Carnegie's Heinz School.