Expanding access, quality, and fairness in the justice system for all Coloradans.

What is Access to Justice?

Access to Justice means a fundamentally fair system that helps people solve the legal problems that shape their lives.

This matters because a fundamentally fair justice system stabilizes people and families, strengthens communities, and supports economic opportunity.

The Problem

The justice system is not working for the people it is meant to help.

The courts system is confusing and scary

For many, hiring an a lawyer is out of reach

Legal information is hard to find and use

The result is a gap between the promise of fairness and reality, costing people their homes, their safety, their income, and their future.

Our Work

Across Colorado a robust and growing access to justice ecosystem is hard at work building new solutions and carrying out time-tested solutions to the justice gap. It includes lawyers, legal service organizations, judges, court staff, community organizations, funders, and policy makers.

We are the statewide hub that unites, supports, and coordinates the access to justice ecosystem to maximize its impact and remove systemic barriers to change.

We do this by

Building Coalitions

To evaluate community needs and unite leaders across sectors in systemic change

Funding Legal Aid

So our most marginalized individuals have a lawyer by their side when it matters most

Mobilizing Pro Bono

To help people, nonprofits, and small businesses thrive

Modernizing Legal Help

So people without attorneys can rely on guides and tools designed to meet their needs

Reaching Rural Communities

Through partnerships and innovation so geography doesn't determine outcomes

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Legal Professionals: visit our state’s centralized pro bono clearinghouse, Pro Bono CO, to volunteer and use your skills for good.