Sentences with phrase «legal aid groups»

About 90 percent of the interest is used to help four legal aid groups serving the poor.

Alaska has a strong, community - focused network of resource providers across legal aid groups, domestic violence advocates, public libraries, elder advocacy programs, Alaska Native law institutions, among others, that has been born of the need to address gaps in coverage and direct access to legal assistance.

Under the Access to Civil Justice Act, a portion of court filing fees are given to legal aid groups in North Carolina — $ 1.8 million per year.

The International Legal Aid Group organises gatherings of legal aid administrators and academics every couple of years or so.

Quality assurance and legal needs surveys are just two practices which have gone round the world — very largely because of the existing of the International Legal Aid Group which since 1992 has held conferences that seek to bring together a wide range of legal aid administrations and academics.

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 organizations.

Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation has awarded 1.2 million to various Hosuton Legal Aid Groups.

In light of this disparity, The American Lawyer set out for the first time to find out how much money these big firms give to support legal aid groups.

He adds that the criteria they are using to assess potential technology partners includes the privacy standards employed by the company and what the onboarding process looks like for interested legal aid groups.

Another national conference of student legal aid groups was hosted by SLS in the spring of 1979.

September 1, 2013 — Twelve months ago, the Washington office of Skadden Arps, local legal aid groups, and three corporate legal departments started the Impact Project.

They were disseminated, initially, largely through a group of liaising legal aid administrators and academics, the International Legal Aid Group.

Legal aid groups and City Councilmembers are urging New York State Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to ban courthouse arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless agents present judicial warrants.

It's normal not to have a contract in place until months into the fiscal year, but legal aid groups could keep taking on clients because there was no uncertainty about the rules, officials said.

Until then, legal aid groups will continue to fight for consumers with serious hardships.

Would you try to find meaningful legal work, such as working for a pro bono foundation or legal aid group?

[They have] used public - facing databases, to find the other issues that his legal aid group's clients have.

For months, representatives from the Access to Justice Commission and legal aid groups have been meeting with members of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee and the Governor's staff to talk about two things: how legal aid can help Wisconsin residents resolve their legal problems more efficiently and how that assistance helps the state save money.

Given that large law firms donate fees, the 2nd Circuit's decision could reduce the amount of money donated to legal aid groups — but that's not the concern that they expressed in the press release.

But given that large law firms don't keep legal fees from pro bono cases and routinely donate fees to legal aid groups, how would a lower fee deter firms from taking these cases?

Tokens might be donated to legal aid groups that could then provide them to consumers to be used to purchase legal services from cooperating law firms.

One legal aid group is turning to the private bar for a lifeline to keep it afloat.

The program will pay the salaries and benefits of young attorneys dubbed «fellows» who will work with the legal aid groups to represent several hundred clients a year in civil and family courts.»

Thomas Hamilton is the VP Strategy and Operations at ROSS Intelligence, where he helps co-ordinate efforts across the company to ensure that sole practitioners, legal aid groups, law firms, state bar associations and law faculties get as much value out of ROSS as possible.

VP Strategy and Operations at ROSS Intelligence, and as employee # 1 he co-ordinates efforts across the company to ensure that sole practitioners, legal aid groups, law firms, government agencies, corporate law departments, state bar associations and law faculties are able to benefit from cutting - edge developments in artificial intelligence research.

«The project created three virtual practice groups, each staffed with attorneys from Skadden, the three companies - Northrop Grumman, LivingSocial and Cisco and the three legal aid groups — Children's Law Center, Legal Aid Society of D.C. and Bread for the City — to work on housing, guardianship and domestic violence issues.»

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.

Just as two examples, HiiL team members presented both to conferences of the International Legal Aid Group (multiple times) and the Legal Services Corporation Technical Initiative Grants programme.

Our clients are law firms, legal departments, legal aid groups and even legal technology startups who are trying to understand the legal marketplace.

In his role at ROSS, he helps coordinate efforts across the organization to ensure that sole practitioners, legal aid groups, law firms, state bar associations, and law faculties get as much value out of ROSS as possible.