Sentences with phrase «address civil legal needs»

However, the paper also suggests that there are reasons to believe that non-lawyer ownership will not lead to significant access gains because (i) those in need of civil legal services often have few resources and, for them, legal aid is the answer, (ii) non-lawyer ownership is likely to be attracted to profitable sectors of the market, (iii) some legal services require the individualized attention of an experienced practitioner who charges high rates and the traditional worker owned partnership model may be the better approach in this context and (iv) there may be reasons other than price causing people not to address civil legal needs.

Why should healthcare address civil legal needs as part of its response to patient and population health?

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To address climate change, we need to link all kinds of initiatives: legal reforms and civil disobedience, hunger strikes and national consultations, massive protests and creative individual actions, consumers» actions and boycotts, occupation of banks and road blockages, political pressure, and replication of good practices.

We are committed to ensuring that your gifts to the Endowment are invested wisely and that disbursements are put to use efficiently and equitably to address the most pressing civil legal needs facing low - income families in our state.

We entered this session asking the Legislature to increase funding for legal aid by roughly $ 12 million — which would have been a 50 % increase in funding to address the significant disparities identified in the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Uplegal aid by roughly $ 12 million — which would have been a 50 % increase in funding to address the significant disparities identified in the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study UpLegal Needs Study Update.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

In his address, Mr. Moskowitz stressed the need for increased funding to protect the critical role civil legal aid plays in ensuring access to justice.

It is estimated that all the programs and resources devoted to ensuring access to justice address only 20 percent of the civil legal needs of low - income people in the United States.

Project staff are dedicated to providing free civil legal services — legal advice, referrals and / or full attorney representation in court — to address the broad range of legal needs within the LGBTQ + community.

In his address, Mr. Moskowitz stressed the need for increased funding for the civil legal aid line item, «to avoid further devastating program cuts.»

After all, the WSBA's own Civil Legal Needs Study determined that the # 1 reason poor people had no or limited access to justice was because they did not know how to get access to justice or they did not know they had a problem that could be addressed by the justice system.

Few would dispute that technology is one of the keys to addressing the justice gap — the difference between the need for civil legal services among low - income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs.

Currently, civil legal aid receives a biennial appropriation of only about $ 25 million, which as research shows, is insufficient to address critical needs.

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Bruce's generosity and longstanding collaboration with NLADA have resulted in groundbreaking initiatives, notably a statewide veterans coalition program in North Carolina addressing civil and criminal legal needs.

In an attempt to address the sobering findings of the 2015 Civil Legal Needs Study Update, which found that a full 76 % of low - income Washingtonians experiencing a civil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four yCivil Legal Needs Study Update, which found that a full 76 % of low - income Washingtonians experiencing a civil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four yLegal Needs Study Update, which found that a full 76 % of low - income Washingtonians experiencing a civil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ycivil legal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ylegal problem are unable to get any sort of help, OCLA's Reinvestment Plan proposes to increase the state's investment in civil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ycivil legal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four ylegal aid by $ 31.5 M over the course of four years.

(1) after evaluating the needs of the district and the available civil legal aid services, prepare an annual written proposal to address the district's needs;

The Endowment was founded in 2000 by two visionary attorneys to address the growing unmet needs of low - income families and the unpredictable nature of civil legal aid funding.

Fellows and law students will provide legal services, outreach, and education to address legal needs resulting from human trafficking and a variety of civil legal issues arising from victimization, such as family law, education, employment, immigration, and consumer protection, as well as enforcing crime victims» rights.

«The new fixed and graduated fee schemes (for civil, family and immigration legal aid) are predicated on providers carrying out a range of cases that address the full spectrum of clients» needs... Providers may choose to use particular practitioners as specialists to deal with more complex cases, however, the organisation as a whole will need to provide a full range of services in order to profit effectively from the new fees.»

«These seven fellows will help deliver on that promise by addressing the unmet civil legal needs of some of Ohio's most underserved populations.»

The Equal Justice Conference joins all components of the civil legal aid community to discuss and address issues related to the delivery of legal services to low - income individuals in need of legal assistance.