Sentences with phrase «funded legal aid programs»

I think individual members of Congress know the important service that LSC funded legal aid programs provide to their constituents and I think they'll back us.

Now some of their funding as I said is coming from other sources, but LSC funded legal aid programs are about 64 % of the universe of legal aid programs by volume.

Publicly - funded legal aid programs started in Canada almost 40 years ago.

Per an investigation by The Guardian, the net effect of regulatory reform in the U.K. has actually reduced access to justice, as part of the reforms included substantial cut backs in government funded legal aid programs.

The Northwest Justice Project is Washington's publicly funded legal aid program.

$ 10 million will be used for housing counseling and $ 5 million will be used for the state courts to help them process foreclosure related issues another $ 5 million will go to the attorneys general office to help fund legal aid programs and $ 5 million will go to the attorney general's office to reimburse them for their efforts to stop the abuses in the foreclosure process.

Not exact matches

«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.

The largest of such grants was awarded to Rockland County Legal Aid for their Landlord Tenant Advocacy and Security Deposit Program, which received $ 36,000 in funding.

Legal Services Corp. grant funding has been cut from almost $ 379 million two years ago to $ 316 million currently, and those grants now pay less than 27 percent of the funding for New York's nonprofit legal aid programs, DiNapoli Legal Services Corp. grant funding has been cut from almost $ 379 million two years ago to $ 316 million currently, and those grants now pay less than 27 percent of the funding for New York's nonprofit legal aid programs, DiNapoli legal aid programs, DiNapoli said.

The law beefs up law enforcement's ability to arrest potential abusers, provides funding for local centers and programs to give aid to the abused and offers legal protections for victims.

A one - of - a-kind publicly funded school voucher program suffered a legal blow this morning, as a plurality on a divided Colorado Supreme Court ruled it violated a state ban on aid for religious institutions.

In addition, Animal Aid USA raises money to fund spay and neuter programs in low income communities and raise awareness of the legal animal cruelties happening daily in the U.S., such as the gas chamber, cardiac heart stick euthanasia and puppy mills.

In late March, Legal Aid Ontario announced new funding for Ontario law school clinics in the amount of $ 100,000 each for continue their family law programs.

The probability of wrongful convictions is increased by increasing numbers of defendants in the courts without lawyers, which is due to: (a) very poor government funding of legal aid programs; and, (b) law societies» failure to attempt to solve the unaffordable legal services problem — the one aggravates the damage done by the other.

In the 2015 report, the Oregon task force based the need for a legal technician program on funding cuts to courthouse facilitators and legal aid.

Civil legal aid programs benefit from the compilation of small amounts of interest earned when lawyers pool the escrow funds they hold for their clients.

Today, IOLTA programs exist in all 50 states, Washington, D. C., and the US Virgin Islands to help fund nonprofit organizations that provide civil legal aid for low - income people.

To maximize IOLTA income for civil legal aid and the benefit these programs bring to New Hampshire, encourage your firm to place trust account funds with a Leadership Bank, which provides a higher interest rate to maximize support for legal aid.

The EJC was established in 1995 to serve as a strong voice to advocate for adequately funding civil legal aid programs in Washington State.

IOLTA, or Interest on Lawyer's Trust Accounts, is a system that generates funds that go to addressing gaps in access to justice and serving civil legal aid programs.

The Result: In 2013, Texas legal aid programs received approximately $ 20.8 million in funds through appropriations and court fees and fines, almost 300 percent more than the $ 5.4 million received 10 years ago.

Instead our efforts go to helping retain and gain adequate funding for legal aid programs in Washington State.

Established in 1974, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) promotes equal access to justice by providing federal funding grants to 134 nonprofit legal aid programs across the United StLegal Services Corporation (LSC) promotes equal access to justice by providing federal funding grants to 134 nonprofit legal aid programs across the United Stlegal aid programs across the United States.

In the US the federal legal aid funder has provided technology initiative grants, which have set off many innovative projects that are changing how legal aid programs deliver services.

The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), according to its Web site, funds 138 legal aid programs with 700 offices around the couLegal Services Corp. (LSC), according to its Web site, funds 138 legal aid programs with 700 offices around the coulegal aid programs with 700 offices around the country.

[1] The argument is that if the civil legal aid system [2] is viewed by the middle class as a program that could benefit them if they encounter trouble, rather than being only for the poor, a wider segment of the public will have a stake in access to justice and they will support higher levels of public funding.

Each year, the Walk to the Hill draws attorneys from more than 40 Boston - area law firms in its mission to urge lawmakers to protect state funding for programs that provide civil legal aid to low - income Massachusetts residents.

Ideally a legal aid program would have at least some funding from the following sources:

The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) established this website to help civil legal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individLegal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) established this website to help civil legal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individuaAid and Defender Association (NLADA) established this website to help civil legal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individlegal aid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individuaaid programs and other equal justice advocates find additional funding to support their efforts to provide legal aid to families and individlegal aid to families and individuaaid to families and individuals.

Justice Bonkalo recommended that «The Ministry of the Attorney General and LAO should ensure continued funding to enable student programs like Pro Bono Students Canada's Family Law Project and the student legal aid services societies to continue to operate and possibly even expand.»

The funding is provided through Healey's Legal Assistance for Our Veterans Grant program, which is programmed to fund legal aid groups, legal clinics, or nonprofit organizatLegal Assistance for Our Veterans Grant program, which is programmed to fund legal aid groups, legal clinics, or nonprofit organizatlegal aid groups, legal clinics, or nonprofit organizatlegal clinics, or nonprofit organizations.

That lack of funds is largely due to the drop in interest rates over the last decade, so legal aid programs in Massachusetts and around the country are down 60, 70, even 80 %.

Judiciary and bar leaders will address the crowd before participants then lobby individual legislators to protect state funding for programs that provide civil legal aid to low - income Massachusetts residents.

In addition, itnrecommends an immediate increase legal aid funding, the establishment of videoconferencing facilities to increase access to the courts in rural areas, and investment in mental health programs that provide alternatives to the criminal justice system.

It may very well be that without radical reform of the justice system, addressing the needs of the people in gap requires providing them with actual legal services, which in turn might mean undoing a decade and a half of funding cuts to Canada's legal aid programs.

In 2014, the meeting included legal aid funding updates, breakout programs on a broad range of topics — including support of self - represented litigants — language - access projects, pro bono projects, innovations in technology and roundtables for new and more mature ATJCs.

They fund 134 independent legal aid programs with almost 800 legal aid offices serving every county, state, and territory.

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

The goal of this year's Walk was to lobby state legislators to increase funding for programs that provide civil legal aid to low - income Massachusetts residents.

The Louis M. Brown Award recognizes programs and projects that employ innovative means to enable affordable access to legal services for those of moderate income, who do not qualify for legal aid yet lack the discretionary funds to pay the traditional costs of legal services.

During his term, Sandy worked tirelessly to bring awareness to the need for increased legislative funding for these programs and to explore ways the courts and the legal aid community could better work together to improve equal access to justice for all litigants.

Since 2010, Sandy has led the EJC in its efforts to increase state funding for legal aid programs facing increased demand and the loss of other funding due to the recession.

Instead of operating a less well funded legal aid style program, perhaps the profession could start addressing the structural issues that are contributing to the problem amorphously referred to as «access to justice» (which I am defining as a person's inability to obtain legal representation at a price they can afford) by:

The Walk to the Hill means literally walking up Beacon Street to the Capitol on Beacon Hill to urge state representatives and senators to preserve funding for legal aid programs.

Our submission called for increased civil legal aid funding and for a robust Court Challenges Program to support legal challenges defending equality rights, among other important measures.

TLSC staff have also provided statewide leadership in developing alternative funding sources for legal aid programs and advocated successfully for improved appeal rights for HHSC clients to include the judicial review of public benefit determinations.

I'd estimate that the legal aid programs that we fund account for about 64 % of legal aid services in the United States.

We're the biggest single funder of legal aid in the United States, but that is 38 % average masks wide variations in the degree to which legal aid programs are dependent on us.

No other legal aid program funded from anybody that's providing service to low - income people.

One of the reasons cited for overlooking legal aid as a solution is the limited funding for these programs, which is why I find the Tennessee study so interesting.