Sentences with phrase «legal needs of the poor»

Also, organized programs assist in identifying priority legal needs of the poor in the local community so pro bono services are provided to those most in need.

The committee regularly evaluates legal needs of poor, low and moderate income persons in the community, and the best ways to meet those needs.

As far back as the Levinson Report in 1970 (co-sponsored by The Florida Bar and the University of Florida), the legal community in Florida has been faced with documentation of the overwhelming unmet legal needs of the poor in Florida, and the adverse effect this lack of access to the legal system has not only on the poor, but on the entire legal system.

With so many legal needs of the poor going unmet, «finding different paths for people who truly want to be lawyers opens up all sorts of possibilities» for law graduates to find jobs, he maintains.

LSC grantees handle the basic civil legal needs of the poor, addressing matters involving safety, subsistence, and family stability.

The circuit pro bono committees are to assess the priority legal needs of the poor in the circuit, assess the potential pro bono resources within the legal community in the circuit, develop plans and establish opportunities by which the legal community can address the priority needs through pro bono legal services to the poor, and promote participation in pro bono legal services.

The response by the Joint Commission, The Florida Bar and the Supreme Court of Florida is the Voluntary Pro Bono Attorney Plan to encourage locally - developed plans by which the legal community will provide leadership to significantly address the unmet legal needs of the poor.

The committee publishes a Legal Service Directory for the public and regularly evaluates legal needs of poor and low income persons in the community, and the best ways to meet those needs.

The Joyce Holsey's Loan Repayment Program was created to establish a statewide loan assistance program for law school graduates employed in programs dedicated to serving the civil legal needs of the poor.

• You have a professional responsibility to render pro bono legal services to the poor and participate in other pro bono service activities that directly relate to the legal needs of the poor.

«The legal needs of the poor go largely unmet.

LegalMatch agrees that it shall not use the term «legal aid» in any Advertising or the sale of any goods or services, because «legal aid» is a term of art meaning «aid provided by an organization established especially to serve the legal needs of the poor.»

The committees are necessary to provide the structure needed to provide the leadership required, to reconnect the legal community with the legal needs of the poor and to build a pro bono culture at the local level.

The Plan offers the lawyers in Florida the opportunity to demonstrate leadership through local planning to significantly address the legal needs of the poor in their community.

While in the subsequent years Florida has been a leader in seeking to address the legal needs of the poor, the comprehensive study of The Florida Bar / Florida Bar Foundation Joint Commission on Delivery of Legal Services to the Indigent in Florida in 1991 determined that there were approximately 1,000,000 unmet legal needs annually experienced by the poor in Florida.

Overall the committee has a planning, development, and promotional responsibility which is locally tailored to develop a pro bono culture within the legal community and assist the legal community to provide leadership in addressing the legal needs of the poor.

The reports are needed to adequately evaluate how the legal needs of the poor are being met, to provide information needed to continue to improve pro bono services, and to emphasize the importance of the aspirational professional responsibility.

This new ABA report helps to better understand pro bono in a comprehensive way and will allow us to develop more effective strategies to better meet the legal needs of the poor.»

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

The Court, Legal Aid, and the Iowa State Bar Association will continue to look for other ways to meet the legal needs of poor Iowans.

Judge Lippman took great care in his speech to highlight innovations in other states — Texas, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Delaware, Montana and California, in particular, as well as the federal courts on immigration cases — to serve the legal needs of the poor.

Offered: Summer Session: 2015 Course Description: (1 credit): Research studies repeatedly demonstrate that 80 % of the legal needs of the poor in the United States remain unmet, despite existing federal, state, and volunteer programs that provide some civil legal services to low income people.

Recognizing the growing severity of the unmet legal needs of the poor and disadvantaged in the central valley communities, we ask you to join with other attorneys and firms in Fresno County in providing the legal aid community with pro bono legal services by signing on to the Central Valley Pro Bono Outreach Project.

In a world where over 60 % of small businesses who experienced a legal event in the past two years report not hiring a lawyer (LegalShield Survey Report), where 80 % of the legal needs of the poor and middle class go unmet (See Legal Service Report) and where some 40 % of law school graduates can't find full time jobs (ABA 2015 Report) anything that tears down barriers to justice and allows an underserved population to be served may be worth the risk.

But it calculates that 80 percent of the legal needs of the poor go unmet.

The legal needs of the poor are local issues, and although nationwide, this celebration is intended to have a local focus and impact.