Procedural Justice Workshop

Procedural justice focuses on fair processes, and how people’s perception of fairness is strongly impacted by the quality of their experiences and not only the end result of these experiences. Leaders who prioritize procedural justice practices are more likely to achieve improved satisfaction from those they lead and serve. 

If you are currently working in a clinic, interested in work in the criminal legal system, either as a prosecutor or defense attorney, or thinking of a career in direct services nonprofits, this workshop can be essential in helping to prepare you for interactions with clients in clinical and other professional settings. Procedural justice theory has been applied to various settings within organizations, educational settings, and the civil and criminal legal systems. The goal of the workshop is to incorporate strategies for promoting trust in professional legal settings into your experiential legal education. 

Emily LaGratta, J.D., is a national expert in procedural justice who has worked with leadership at Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory for nearly 15 years. She has trained thousands of judges, lawyers, and other justice professionals and authored dozens of resources on research-informed strategies to promote procedural justice in day-to-day interactions between professionals and litigants. Emily is a justice reform consultant and innovator who has worked with courts and other justice agencies across the country since 2009. Before starting LaGratta Consulting, Emily was the Director of Procedural Justice Initiatives at the Center for Court Innovation, where she oversaw a multi-million dollar consulting practice on the topics of procedural justice and community justice. She has designed and guided the implementation of innovative programming in courts, prosecutor and defender offices, and community and institutional corrections agencies, developed practitioner resources, and trained hundreds of justice system professionals. Emily started her legal career working as a public defender at a neighborhood-based office in Harlem and very briefly as a corporate tax lawyer at Skadden, Arps. She has a mathematics degree from Pomona College (Chirp!) and law degree from the University of Wisconsin (Go Badgers!). When she’s not working, she’s exploring New York City, traveling, and spending time with her family. She can be reached through her website, LaGratta Consulting, LLC.