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Equal Justice University 2025
Welcome to EJU2025: Moving Forward Together
Thursday August 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am PDT
Project management is a vital skill in legal services work, showing up in everything from implementing strategic plans to engaging donors, planning events, organizing clinics, and meeting grant deliverables. This session is intended for beginner and mid-level leaders of projects to help provide tools and best practices to ensure the development and implementation of successful projects and programs to serve clients.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Attendees will learn the 5 phases of project management and how they can be applied to their everyday management. 
  2. Attendees will be familiar with some of the best practices for effective project management based on professional studies and experience in legal services settings. 
  3. Attendees will understand how project management tools can support successful projects by identifying key features to look for—such as task tracking, timelines, collaboration, and visibility—regardless of the specific platform used. 
Speakers
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DarKenya Waller

Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands
DarKenya W. Waller is the Executive Director of TN’s largest nonprofit law firm, Legal Aid Society of Middle TN and the Cumberlands. She began at Legal Aid as a family law staff attorney focusing on the needs of low-income victims of domestic violence before becoming Managing Attorney... Read More →
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Zane Jud

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
Zane Jud is the Project Manager for the Eviction Right to Counsel (ERTC) pilot program at the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. He began working at Legal Aid in 2022 after receiving his Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Bradley... Read More →
Thursday August 28, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am PDT
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