May 14,2018 - Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. (PSLS) is a
non-profit legal services organization with 40 years of experience providing quality legal services to low - income persons, currently with 12 field...
Several groups of which Legal Aid is a member or with which we work closely — the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, and the Washington Council of Lawyers — submitted comments seeking changes to the rule, which had needlessly prevented competent lawyers affiliated
with legal services organizations from offering free legal assistance to low - income clients.
he goal of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation — PA IOLTA Loan Repayment Assistance Program («LRAP») is two-fold: 1) Help attorneys employed at IOLTA -
funded legal services organizations across the state better manage their undergraduate and law school student loan debt so they can afford to remain in public service; and 2) Help IOLTA - funded legal aid organizations recruit and retain the best and the brightest attorneys for service in the public good.
The goal of the assistance program is to help attorneys employed at qualified
legal service organizations across Pennsylvania manage their debt while strengthening talent within public service.
This is followed by a 10 - week host placement, where fellows work with some of the nation's most
dynamic legal services organizations in the country who are at the forefront our expanding access to justice.
The city threatened to stop housing her and 488 other families — but the Legal Aid Society, one of the city's
largest legal services organization, stepped in and found her temporary housing, and eventually a permanent home on Staten Island.
• Local general support funds — At least 80 percent of MLAC general support funding goes to
regional legal services organizations based on the number of low - income persons in the area they serve as determined by Census data.
Speaking via video — Hurricane Sandy forced Lippman to cancel plans to travel to D.C. — Lippman said the idea for the requirement came out of the dire financial straits facing
civil legal services organizations at a time when demand for legal services for low - income individuals is on the rise.
Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional
legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.
Law students working with Yale's
legal services organization plan to file a class - action lawsuit in Federal District Court today against Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and the state's acting and former health commissioners on behalf of residents affected by Connecticut's Ebola quarantine policies, including two who were Yale graduate students.
Lawyers from the Central American Refugee Center, a Long Island
immigrant legal services organization commonly known as Carecen, and the Hofstra Law Clinic filed suit against Nassau County in state Supreme Court, saying that the county police department was cooperating with ICE in ways that break state law.
Steven Choi, executive director of the Min Kwon Center for Community Action in Flushing, which provides free social and legal services, said the nonprofit is the
only legal services organization for Korean Americans on the East Coast.
Ius Laboris offers access to the best local HR law experts in one global team with 24 % more ranked employment lawyers (Chambers & Partners, June 2014) in 10 % more recommended jurisdictions (Legal 500, July 2014) than any other global
HR legal services organization.
Our focus is working with organizations, law firms, legal incubators, law schools, and
legal service organizations seeking to deliver legal services to consumers at a price they can afford.
A trade name may be used by a lawyer in private practice if it does not imply a connection with a government agency or with a public or
charitable legal services organization and is not otherwise in violation of Rule 7.1.
On behalf of a nonprofit
legal services organization where poor or legally underserved persons receive legal advice and services if the person on whose behalf the student is appearing has provided written consent to that appearance and the law student extern is under the supervision of a supervising lawyer, as specified in section (2)(d).
Fellows will be paired with
legal services organizations around the country including, The Northwest Justice Project, Alaska Legal Services Corp., New Mexico Legal Aid, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.
Technology is not replacing lawyers, but it is changing the tasks they perform; the delivery models they operate in; performance and reward structures - output (results) rather than input (hours billed); where and for whom they work — agile, increasingly «gigs» instead of jobs, and for
legal services organizations rather than traditional law firms.
In addition to winning high impact litigation defending or expanding the rights of low - income families and individuals, Rothschild has supported and shared his expertise with
countless legal service organizations and their attorneys.
Clement: Our team has worked with neighborhood - based tenant organizing groups as well as
major legal services organizations and practice a model of community - led development to design, build, and distribute our services to those who need it most.
Because legal service organizations lack a systems perspective, they routinely confuse the cost of feedback, which tends to be short - term and personal, with the value of feedback, which is short -, medium -, and long - term and affects the competitiveness of the entire enterprise.