Talk Justice: Episode Fifty-One

Guests

Nalani Fujimori Kaina is the executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Ms. Kaina began her career as an attorney on Molokai, an island of 7,500 residents, in a one attorney office and also served as a managing attorney and deputy director. She is a director with the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, commissioner on the Hawai‘i Access to Justice Commission, a former chair of the Hawai‘i State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and the immediate past president of the Rural Community Assistance Corporation. She was named one of the 20 for the Next 20 by Hawaii Business magazine, and was a Pacific Business News Business Leader of the Year finalist. She has been recognized by the Hawai‘i State Bar Association, receiving the C. Frederick Shutte Award in 2008 for her work on an access to justice report which lead to the creation of the Hawai‘i Access to Justice Commission, and the President’s Award in 2019. She also received the Ho‘okele Award in 2013 from the Hawai‘i Community Foundation for outstanding non-profit leadership. In 2016, she was chosen to participate in the Omidyar Fellows program, sponsored by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, aimed at creating a network of societal change leaders for Hawai‘i. Ms. Kaina is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Macalester College and New York University School of Law.

Bob Glaves has been Executive Director of The Chicago Bar Foundation since October, 1999, prior to which he had a successful nine-year career as a civil litigator in private practice. As Executive Director of the CBF, Glaves is responsible for leading and overseeing the CBF’s work that brings Chicago’s legal community together to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective. Since Glaves became Executive Director, the CBF has increased the amount of its annual grants and fundraising more than tenfold and has played a lead role in launching a number of groundbreaking access to justice initiatives. Glaves currently serves on the Illinois Judicial Conference, previously was the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Donors Forum (n/k/a Forefront) and President of the National Conference of Bar Foundations, served on other nonprofit boards, and continues to be active in a number of other nonprofit, court, and bar initiatives. He also authors the “Bobservations” blog for the CBF and has been featured in Crain’s Chicago Business. He is a 1991 magna cum laude graduate of The John Marshall Law School, received a B.A. degree in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Wisconsin in 1987, and has been awarded a number of commendations over the course of his career.

Host

As director of innovation design for the Program on Law and Innovation, Caitlin "Cat" Moon designs the J.D. curriculum for PoLI with the goal of empowering students to lead in the innovation of 21st century legal services delivery. Professor Moon also founded and directs the PoLI Institute, which provides interactive post-graduate executive education to legal professionals. She also co-founded and produces the Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI), which brings together experts across legal, technology and other disciplines in collaborative innovation projects

In addition to her roles at Vanderbilt, Moon works with law firms, legal departments and law schools globally to apply the methods and mindsets of human-centered design to re-imagine leadership and legal professional formation and modernize the delivery of legal services. Her current research focuses on innovation leadership and legal professional formation and includes co-creation of a 21st century framework for lawyer competency, the Delta Model.

Moon maintains an active law license and, before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty, she provided legal counsel and strategic guidance to start-up companies through her Nashville-based legal practice for over 20 years. She serves on the College of Law Practice Management’s Board of Trustees and on the advisory boards of the MIT Computational Law Report and the Justice Technology Association. Moon was recognized in 2016 by the American Bar Association among the inaugural Women in Legal Tech and as a Fastcase 50 honoree. She received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services' 2017 Janice M. Holder Award, which recognizes a legal professional who "has made significant contributions in advancing the quality of justice statewide by ensuring the legal system is open and available to all."

Moon holds a B.A. and J.D. from Vanderbilt University, and an M.A. from Western Kentucky University.