Sentences with phrase «legal aid societies»

The best way to get help is to attend a free clinic put on by legal aid societies.

Male lawyers created legal aid societies and slowly tried to take over the provision of legal assistance.

In contrast, male lawyers at professional legal aid societies turned over quickly.

The book describes a period of tremendous fighting between legal aid societies (professional male lawyers) and social service organizations (women lay lawyers or social workers).

Another category of attorneys work for non-profit legal aid societies to help the disadvantaged in the society get justice.

Legal aid societies across the state help people with annual incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty level.

Volunteer mediator to juvenile delinquents and elementary and peer mediation trainer with Legal Aid Society of San Diego (LASSD) and awarded for outstanding service May 1st 2015.

This case involves an applicant who sought the assistance of the Alberta Legal Aid Society in 2008 and 2011.

Mr. Chisolm is a pro bono advocate for the Closing the Gap program at Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.

In December, the ACLU and the Community Legal Aid Society filed a complaint claiming that Delaware's charter schools were re-segregating students.

«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.

He was an attorney at the Nassau County Legal Aid Society (1980 - 83), and was associated with Obermaier Morvillo & Abramowitz, P.C. (1983 - 85) and Owen & Fennell (1985 - 87).

These organizations include Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake, Utah Legal Services, the Disability Law Center and the Multi-Cultural Legal Center.

Following law school, Ms. McClatchey worked as a fellow at Atlanta Legal Aid Society assisting clients with a variety of consumer and public benefits issues.

Travis Mock, an associate in the litigation practice, received an award from the New York Legal Aid Society for his work litigating to keep a severely ill and indigent woman and her son from being evicted from their apartment based on allegations that they conspired with the managing agent to enter a fraudulent rent - stabilized lease.

She praised the 90 - day review underway of the city's homeless services, being led by Human Resources Commissioner Steven Banks — the former head of Legal Aid Society who she said she's known even longer than the mayor — and said she'd offer her own input.

In 1911, 15 legal aid societies joined together in New York to create an association that would become NLADA.

Bob Hauer has served on the Minnesota Supreme Court's No - Fault Arbitration Standing Committee, as president of the Minneapolis Legal Aid Society and is an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law and the University of St. Thomas Law School.

This week in the public interest world: a Rainbow State legal services program merges with Appleseed; Cleveland Legal Aid Society gets a $ boost to help with an office move; the importance of maintaining government legal services funding here in DC; MLAB hits the century mark, and there's no shortage of work; news about the new USAJobs site; training bilingual law students in proper legal translating / interpretation (great idea!)

A coalition of progressive groups including the NYCLU and Legal Aid Society announced its opposition to a ballot measure on Nov. 7 that asks whether New Yorkers should hold a convention to revise and amend the state constitution next year.

Our local bar and the local legal aid society put on a CLE every year and, because I'm on the task force, I usually present a free CLE on new tech topics and ethics to our local attorneys.

Also at 10 a.m., state Sen. James Sanders presents a Women's Leadership Initiative Housing clinic, focusing on Legal Aid Society housing cases that help low - income women in New York keep their homes in the New York City public housing, 1931 Mott Ave., Far Rockaway.

In 2014, the Community Legal Aid Society and the American Civil Liberties Union brought a complaint to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that asserted that the charter schools of Delaware were resegregating the state's schools by race and by disability.

A properly funded Legal Aid Society would mend this market without the need to resort to weird, misleading, or inappropriate metrics (this lawyer is a good lawyer because of a bar exam taken before the lawyer ever practiced?

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.

The ABA should continue to support the full funding of the civil legal aid societies and courts should adopt rules to encourage pro bono representation by lawyers such as CLE credit for service.

Since originally being founded in 1900 as the Boston Legal Aid Society, GBLS's mission has been to provide high - quality legal representation in civil (noncriminal) matters to low - income individuals and families in the Greater Boston area and to advocate for systemic change to alleviate the conditions of poverty.

Mr. Banks has also complained that the state has been unresponsive to many of his requests, and Mr. Cuomo's office has asserted that Mr. Banks — a former Legal Aid Society attorney who led the organization — is unqualified to handle homelessness services.

In 2010, the party nominated Legal Aid Society attorney Kenny Schaeffer for governor, only to replace him with Cuomo.

He previously served as a board member of the Orange County Bar Association Legal Aid Society, the Orange County Bar Foundation and he chaired the Orange County Bar Association Judicial Relations Committee.

«Legal Aid receives nearly 20,000 calls a year and we are grateful to the Hawaii State Judiciary for its commitment to the court self - help centers and expanding the resources available for those navigating the legal system on their own,» added Legal Aid Society of Hawaii Executive Director, M. Nalani Fujimori Kaina.

Summit County Legal Aid Society incorporated «to secure justice for and to protect the rights of the needy and of individuals of moderate means, to promote measures for their assistance, and to enable them to obtain competent legal advice and representation.»

John also serves as First Vice President of the Indianapolis Bar Association: Secretary of the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society; and Vice Chair of the Board of Visitors of Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

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Free / Low Cost Legal Aid • Neighborhood Legal Services Program • The Legal Aid Society of The District of Columbia

While at Skadden, she participated in the Skadden Loaned Associate program, a seven - month externship program with Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.

By 1965, there were 140 legal aid societies in operation across the United States.

The level of Glenwood's access to politicians and policymaking came as a shock to even veteran members of the tenant movement, including Legal Aid Society attorney Judith Goldiner, who says it helped explain why Silver had turned his back on pro-tenant causes, culminating in the Rent Act of 2011, which saw the renewal of 421a and did not bring an end to vacancy decontrol as they had hoped.

The project was spearheaded by Atlanta Legal Aid Society, in partnership with the Legal Services... Continue Reading

Today we are highlighting the work of Jordan Chisolm, who volunteers through the Closing the Gap program at Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.

These same standard policy terms apply when you provide professional services through a clinic within the meaning of the Legal Services Act, 1998, a student legal aid society, or an Aboriginal legal services corporation funded by Legal Aid Ontario.