Michele Leering – Selected presentations and articles

Presentations and articles:

• Measuring What Matters Background Paper 2024 – research report and background paper intended to provoke discussion on how best to evaluate justice & health partnerships (JHPs) as they evolve in the Canadian context. The background paper explored how these partnerships have been developed in the UK, US, Australia and Canada, summarizes their impact, and documents progress being made by current justice & health partnerships in Ontario. March 2024.
• Health & Justice Partnerships: An Innovative Approach to Health Equity – Presentation at The Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC), March 27, 2023
• CLC 101 & Referring People to Clinics – Presentation to Legal Aid Ontario staff, January 20, 2021
• Pathfinders interview – The Canadian poverty law clinic that kept putting people first during a pandemic, June 17, 2020
• Stymied, Stigmatized and Socially Excluded: A Pilot Study Exploring Unmet Civil Legal Needs of People Incarcerated at the Quinte Detention Centre – March 2020 Report  (Report Summary)
• CALC’s Written Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs Pre-Budget Consultations – January 2020
• CALC Forum – Challenging Justice Gaps – Powerpoint presentations – November 26, 2019
• CALC’s Modernization Review Submission – Submission to Legal Aid Ontario and Ministry of Attorney General, September 6, 2019,  subsequent Supplemental Submission submitted September 13, 2019 and letter to Legal Aid’s Clinic Law Services Division September 30, 2020
• Innovating, Intervening & Transforming: Justice & Health Partnerships in Ontario – Presentation to the 2019 ILAG conference, June 17, 2019
• Case Study of Ontario’s Clinics – Presentation at Access to Justice Conference, Argentina, May 8, 2019
• Just Access or Access to Justice – Presentation at OSF Civil Justice Indicators Workshop, New York City, September 26, 2018
• Contribution to Namati Research Guide: Community Paralegals: Recognition & Financing – August 2018 – also found on the Namati website
• Action Research as an Enabler of Innovation in the Justice Sector – Presentation at Law & Society Association Conference, Toronto, June 7, 2018
• Collaborating on an Experiential Learning Guide for Canadian Law Students: Lessons Learned and Next Steps – ACCLE & CALT Conference, June 1, 2018
• Institutionalizing Community Justice Services:  A Case Study of Ontario Canada’s Community Legal Clinics – presentation at the Legal Empowerment Leadership Course, Budapest, December 7, 2017
• Enhancing the Legal Profession’s Capacity for Innovation: The Promise of Reflective Practice and Action Research for Increasing Access to Justice – Article in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol 34 No 1 (2017), published December 5, 2017
• The Promise of Libraries & Justice Partnerships – Presentation at University of Saskatchewan Access to Justice Week, October 2017
• The Promise of Justice & Health Partnerships – Presentation at University of Saskatchewan Access to Justice Week, October 2017
• Ensuring the Competency of “Whole” Legal Professionals: Maximizing Experiential Learning – Presentation to the CALT conference, June 10, 2017 (CBA’s Access to Justice & Legal Education Subcommittee)
• Rural Justice Forum Presentation – January 30, 2017
• Legal Empowerment through Participatory Action Research – Mobilizing Communities for Justice – Presentation at the Community Legal Empowerment Conference, Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 2016
• Justice Innovation Event Report – report on the October 29, 2015, event “Librarians and Justice: Innovative Access for Rural and Remote Communities”
• Librarians and Access to Justice Outreach: Project report and resources – October 2015
• Report for the Open Society Justice Initiative: Delivering Community Justice Services at Scale – Ontario Canada – October 2015
• Canada Country Report for International Legal Aid Group (ILAG) Conference – Excerpt – June 2015
• Rural Boldness Presentation for ACLCO Conference – May 23, 2015
• Big T, Little t Transformation: Regional and Local Innovation in Legal Clinics (PDF) – presented May 13, 2015, at the Eastern Region Spring Training Conference for community legal clinics in Eastern Ontario (Prezi converted to PDF)
• Improving Access to Justice: Contributions of Community Legal Clinics – Presentation at the LSUC CPD Panel on Access to Justice, April 8, 2015
• Poverty, Law and Health:  The Promise of Justice and Health Collaborations (aka medical/legal partnerships) – Presentation to Queen’s Nursing Faculty March 16, 2015
• Encouraging Reflective Practice in Community Legal Centres and the Justice Sector – Presentation to Australian CLCs, February/March 2014
• Conceptualizing Reflective Practice for Legal Professionals – Article in Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol 23 (2014)
• A Complex Mixed Model of Service Delivery – Presentation to Irish Legal Aid Board, November 2013
• Community Legal Clinics in Ontario:  Challenges and Opportunities – Presentation to UK Law Centres Network – November 2013
• Navigating with the wandering lost: The critical role of trusted intermediaries in increasing access to justice (PDF) – ILAG Conference Presentation, June 2013 – Also available as a Prezi video (click to download zipped file) – See also Paths to Justice 2011 Report PDF
• Special CALC Access to Justice Projects, May 2013
• Enhancing Access to Justice: Private Bar Lawyers and CALC Collaborations, Hastings County Law Association Annual General Meeting, May 2013
• Legal Aid Services Together (@LAST) – Presentation to Eastern Region Executive Directors, February 2013
• Encouraging Reflective Practice at Law School:  A Conceptual Model and Promising Practices – Osgoode Symposium 2011
• Developing a Disciplined Approach to Reflection: Encouraging Reflective Practice, Integrated Learning, and Sharing Promising Practices – Part I – 6th Global Alliance for Justice Education Conference, July 2011
• Reaching the Hard to Reach:  Distance and Multiculturalism – ILAG Conference, April 2009

PLE Learning Exchange Blog Posts (Archived):

• Prescribing legal help: Intervening early to improve patient health – posted October 26, 2016
• Lessons learned at local libraries – posted October 16, 2015
• Librarians, lawyers and justice – posted September 21, 2015
• Justice at your library? – posted September 1, 2015
• Fines, tickets and justice – posted April 20, 2015
• Storytelling, chocolate and research – posted December 10, 2014
• The wizards of Oz: Learnings from Australia – posted November 12, 2014