Sentences with phrase «legal aid dollars»

For the second year in a row, the Trump Administration proposed the complete elimination of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which administers and grants federal legal aid dollars to all fifty states.

This is a great idea except that the prospect of any significant infusion of legal aid dollars coming from either level of government in the near future is remote.

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It costs over a thousand dollars to hire lawyer, legal aid clinics can only handle a fraction of demand, and it's virtually impossible to file on your own.

Whether it be grants to agencies, scholarships to teachers or loan repayment programs for legal aid attorneys, the Foundation's dollars help to increase access to justice for all Arizonans.

The corroboration lies in fact of LAO LAW's 34 years of success, know - how, popularity, and in saving Legal Aid Ontario millions of dollars.

A recent study released by the Florida Bar Foundation concluded that for every dollar invested in legal aid, the community receives a $ 7 return on that investment.

«The study found that Tennessee's legal aid organizations produce over $ 11.20 in economic impact for every dollar of funding...

It is a centralized legal support service that has a 34 - year history (since July 1979) of success, popularity, and of saving LAO millions of dollars that otherwise would have been paid out on lawyers» legal aid accounts.

It is the best legal research unit in Canada now, with a 35 - year history of successful innovation and saving Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) millions of dollars by reducing the payout for legal research hours claimed on lawyers» accolegal research unit in Canada now, with a 35 - year history of successful innovation and saving Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) millions of dollars by reducing the payout for legal research hours claimed on lawyers» accoLegal Aid Ontario (LAO) millions of dollars by reducing the payout for legal research hours claimed on lawyers» accolegal research hours claimed on lawyers» accounts.

Do we want giant swaths of the legal profession to be owned by future versions of Lehmann Brothers, AIG, Bear Stearns, Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, Principal Trust, GM (kept alive only by the influx of 12 billion dollars of taxpayers» aid), Royal Scotland Bank, and Tesco (the largest grocery chain in England)?

To that end, the board of MetaJure decided that for every dollar raised in their Series A funding round they would donate the equivalent in services to legal aid organizations.

He was instrumental in preparing and submitting to the Marion County Commission the county ordinance that was passed, which increased the filing fee by several dollars and helped fund the Legal Aid Society of Marion County.

Its technology of centralized legal research has enabled it to produce close to 5,000 complete legal opinions per year, thus saving its government - financed legal aid organization millions of dollars that would otherwise have had to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research services rendered.

There are obviously additional benefits of legal aid that can not be measured in dollars and cents.

The economic impact on communities, including the economic multiplier effect, results from federal dollars coming into the state for legal aid that would not have entered the local economy otherwise.

October 3, 2014 — «The authorities of Canada have pledged 9.76 million Canadian dollars ($ 8.6 million) to Ukraine within the Quality and Accessible Legal Aid program, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development stated.

MetaJure has rolled out one of the first impact investing models in legal tech where an investment in our Series A immediately gets an equal dollar amount of free, efficiency - driving technology into the hands of our nation's legal aid providers so that they can increase the number of clients they serve.

«There is a huge group of «sandwich» accused people who make more money than the legal aid cut - off, yet not enough to pay two, three or four thousand dollars or more for lawyer fees.»

From an access to justice perspective the (partial) solution is drop dead obvious — quit using taxpayer dollars to provide affluent doctors with taxpayer subsidized Cadillac lawyering and instead use that $ 200 million to help alleviate some of the problems you list — such as using the $ 200 million (Ontario's alone — but then add the contributions of the other provincial governments to CMPA) to provide the poor and the destitute with better access to legal aid.

But — don't expect to open up a virtual law practice and have the dollars start pouring in, unless you're prepared to invest substantial resources in extensive online marketing or you're able to create a «referral pipeline» from courts or legal aid groups that will send a steady stream of work.

January 31, 2017 — «With funding for civil legal aid in Florida at its lowest point in 10 years, a new study shows that every dollar spent on civil legal services for the state's low - income residents yields more than $ 7 in economic impacts.

It now has a 35 - year history of experience, innovation, success, and saving Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) millions of dollars.