We provide low - income clients with
free civil legal assistance, including legal advice and counsel, effective referrals, and legal representation.
Washington, DC — Northwest Justice Project (NJP) Executive Director César Torres is one of six legal services program directors selected to participate in a White House forum examining the state
of civil legal assistance for low - income Americans.
The Northwest Justice Project (NJP), which provides
critical civil legal assistance and representation to thousands of low - income people in cases affecting basic human needs, was able to step in on her behalf.
And you can make a significant difference in the lives of Wisconsin residents who desperately need access to
civil legal assistance with issues related to safety, housing, employment, health - care and consumer protection.
project partners have joined together to make sure LGBTQ + survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking can
access civil legal assistance wherever they are in New Mexico.
Providing equal access to
appropriate civil legal assistance can help private funders achieve their objectives to: reduce the impact of domestic violence, increase access to employment, prevent homelessness, expand health care coverage and much more.
Working with a broad range of state, community, and
national civil legal assistance, civil rights, and community - based organizations to advance racial justice and leadership development as core values in the civil justice community and to help low - income people have meaningful access to a full range of legal assistance services
Massachusetts legal aid organizations turned away nearly two - thirds of people qualifying for
civil legal assistance over the last year due to a lack of funding, leaving thousands of low - income residents without representation in cases from domestic violence to foreclosure, according to the findings of a statewide task force to be released Wednesday.
Spotlight on Outstanding Public Servants: The New York City Bar Association last night honored the recipients of the 25th Annual Legal Services Awards, which give recognition to attorneys and non-attorneys who provide
outstanding civil legal assistance to New York's poor.
To achieve our mission, we provide
free civil legal assistance in cases where it can make a difference in one's ability to meet one's basic human needs or in enforcing one's basic human rights, including access to housing, food, income, safety, education, and healthcare.
This is its President Jim Sandman on the launch of the Alaska and Hawaii pilots: ««Many people find it difficult to access legal services... The goal of the portals is to simplify that process by providing a single, statewide point of access to effective help for people
needing civil legal assistance.
There is not a «civil Gideon» aspect to the Convention, although there are provisions address the issue of legal fees, fee shifting, and a foreign parent's access to generally available
civil legal assistance in a foreign country.
The Civil Legal Aid Oversight Committee, Washington Supreme Court and Washington's Board for Judicial Administration have all urged congress to protect funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by
providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to -LSB-...]
We add emphasis to the phrase above because it captures a significant change from long - standing practice for allocation of the scarce resources of
civil legal assistance, which has been pungently, if a bit cynically, described as «first in, first out, until the money runs out.»
ASLA provides free
civil legal assistance to low income persons in the types of cases listed in the ASLA Priorities such as Minor Guardianship, Name Change, Small Estates, Domestic Violence, Home Foreclosure Defense etc..
It operated as a joint project of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the Center for Law and Social Policy, serving as an online meeting place, information source, and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts to provide
civil legal assistance to low - income people.
1967 A group of Charlottesville attorneys and law students establishes the Charlottesville - Albemarle Legal Aid Society (CALAS) in response to the acute need for a program of
civil legal assistance to those who could not pay for services.
Since 2004, CLSMF has provided
civil legal assistance to residents of Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties, making us one of the largest nonprofit law firms in the state.
Legal Services provides free
civil legal assistance to low - income individuals and the elderly in 21 counties of eastern Missouri.
CLA also provides free
civil legal assistance to victims of crime and survivors of homicide victims.
NMLA has dedicated its services to erasing barriers to justice for low - income New Mexicans by providing free and high - quality
civil legal assistance and legal education for more than 60 years.
The Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporations was established in 1983 by the Legislature to provide funds for
civil legal assistance to poor people throughout Massachusetts.
New Mexico Legal Aid has dedicated our services to erasing barriers to justice for low - income New Mexicans by providing free and high - quality
civil legal assistance and education for over 60 years.
In 2010, LAFLA provided
civil legal assistance to more than 14,450 people and legal information and education to 55,000 others.
The Commission has been meeting with a variety of private funding sources in Wisconsin to educate them about the linkage between access to
civil legal assistance and a variety of the social issues that private foundations are seeking to address.
TRLS provides free
civil legal assistance to low income families in seventeen counties with three offices and a staff of 35, including 21 full time attorneys.
Your contribution helps VLS provide free,
civil legal assistance for low - income individuals.
Mr. Heffernan serves on the board of directors of Greater Boston Legal Services, which provides
civil legal assistance to the disadvantaged in the Boston area.