(10)th Year Anniversary of Equal Justice Wyoming

Our Building a Better Cheyenne co-host, Ken Wallace, sits down with three of the founding board members of his AmeriCorps VISTA site -- Equal Justice Wyoming (EJW) -- for a bonus edition of the podcast.

Ten years ago, to this day, the Wyoming Supreme Court approved rules and regulations for the Wyoming Center for Legal Aid (WCLA) -- the first state-sponsored civil legal aid program, which would later be rebranded as EJW. Patrick Day, Stuart Day, and Walter Eggers talk about their individual motivations to get involved in this now decade-long project, the path paved by the Access to Justice Commission, the placement and structure of EJW within the judicial branch, and resistance to the idea of state funding for civil legal services. We wrap up our time, together, by covering results of the recent 2019 statewide Civil Legal Needs Assessment, discussing the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on legal aid, and getting-into what lies ahead for EJW and its 501(c)(3) arm -- the Equal Justice Wyoming Foundation -- in their 10th year.

We're hoping to host similar conversations on this platform, in the near future, to continue celebrating EJW's 10th Year Anniversary and to raise awareness of the resources and services that we -- and our partners [Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Medical Legal Partnership, Legal Aid of Wyoming, the Wyoming Children's Law Center, the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, the Teton County Access to Justice Center, and the University of Wyoming College of Law] -- proudly offer. Thank you to all the attorneys throughout the state for their work in standing-up and sustaining our program.

- About EJW [ https://equaljustice.wy.gov/index.php/about-us ]

- Access to Justice Commission [ https://www.courts.state.wy.us/judicial-committees-and-boards/access-to-justice-commission-ajc/ ]

- Civil Legal Needs Assessment: Executive Summary [ https://www.courts.state.wy.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200827_LAW_ExecSum_FINAL.pdf ]

- EJW Facebook: [ https://www.facebook.com/EqualJusticeWyoming/ ]

- EJWF Facebook: [ https://www.facebook.com/EqualJusticeWyomingFoundation/ ]

- EJW Twitter: [ https://twitter.com/equaljusticewyo?lang=en ]

- Patrick Day [ https://www.hollandhart.com/showbio.aspx?Show=15689 ]

- Stuart Day [ https://www.wpdn.net/professionals/stuart-day/ ]

- Walter Eggers [ https://www.hollandhart.com/weggers ]