As we welcome 2025, we hope the past year has brought growth, collaboration, and progress for you and your organization. For the Justice Tech Association (JTA), 2024 has been an incredible journey of innovation and impact. Together, we’ve strengthened our community, expanded opportunities for justice tech startups, and advanced the mission of creating equitable access to justice through technology.
Justice tech plays a vital role in addressing systemic barriers, ensuring fairness, and empowering individuals, organizations, and communities. In a world where over 5 Billion people lack the access to the legal services they need, the need for scalable, tech-driven solutions is more pressing than ever. Through collective action, we’ve built momentum to close the justice gap and create a more equitable legal system.
Below, we’ve outlined some of the key achievements from 2024, all made possible with your support. Each initiative reflects our commitment to advancing the field of justice tech and uplifting our members in meaningful ways.
A Year of Impact: JTA’s 2024 Highlights
New Website & Member Directory: We’ve rebuilt the JTA website and launched our new Member Directory, showcasing our members’ offerings and introducing a members-only portal with streamlined access to exclusive benefits and resources. A huge step for our growing ecosystem!
10 Member Forums: Covering topics like investor strategies for startups, customer acquisition in justice tech, and supporting women in the justice tech space.
Member Outreach Survey: on-on-one interviews culminated in a 3-part report unpacking our members’ current challenges and identifying how we can best support startup growth. (3-part results overview)
Curated Justice Tech Directory: Developed a curated justice tech market directory prototype in collaboration with LSNTAP to expand our members’ customer acquisition channels to legal aid, courts, and consumers.
Advocacy & Media Awareness: Securing multiple speaking engagements, podcast appearances, and media coverage to elevate justice tech for JTA and on behalf of our members.
Regulatory Reform Advocacy: Submitted formal comments and collaborated on creative solutions to reduce regulatory barriers and support scalable justice tech models.
New Members Welcomed: Open Pro Bono, Thurgood, Advocord, and Paraply joined our community this year!
Each of these achievements represents not just a milestone for JTA, but also a story of impact. For example, through the Justice Tech Accelerator, startups like Advocord, descbrybe.ai, Open Pro Bono, Redo.io, Thurgood, and We Decide gained access to mentorship and funding that helped them scale their solutions to reach underserved communities. Similarly, our nationwide Legal Aid Listening Sessions opened new doors for partnerships, with several legal aid organizations now exploring collaborations with justice tech innovators.
This progress underscores the power of collective action and the importance of creating spaces where diverse stakeholders—founders, investors, advocates, and policymakers—can come together to drive change. JTA is at the forefront of building this ecosystem.
Looking Ahead to 2025
The year ahead promises to be even more impactful for the justice tech community. As the demand for scalable, innovative solutions continues to grow, JTA remains committed to providing the resources, connections, and advocacy our members need to succeed.
Here’s some of what’s on the horizon for 2025:
An expanded Justice Tech Accelerator with more resources, targeted curriculum, and increased prize funding from Dream.org.
Our first-ever Member Convening in Tucson, AZ (April 7-8, 2025), marking a very exciting milestone in the growth of JTA!
An industry-first justice tech pilot at the LANC Innovation Lab.
More exclusive benefits, events, and opportunities to accelerate growth of our members and the broader ecosystem.
How You Can Get Involved
We believe that advancing justice tech is a shared mission. In 2025, we invite you to take a more active role in our work:
Support Justice Tech Startups: Your donations and partnerships help fuel innovation and ensure justice tech founders have the resources they need to thrive.
Amplify Our Mission: Share JTA’s work with your network and encourage others to join our growing community.
Closing with Gratitude
As we reflect on the progress made in 2024 and look toward 2025, we’re filled with gratitude for our team, members, partners, and supporters who make this work possible. Justice tech is not just about technology—it’s about people. It’s about the innovators creating solutions, the communities they serve, and the advocates fighting to make justice accessible for everyone. Most importantly, it’s about the individuals that should be able to exercise their rights on a level playing field.
Here’s to a year of innovation, collaboration, and progress!
