Sentences with phrase «through legal aid programs»

Is it the job of government to ensure that all those seeking to access and enforce their legal rights are able to do so, whether through legal aid programs or advocacy services?

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Washington — A substantial number of high - school students apparently managed to sneak through a «legal loophole» during the first four months of this year and enrolled in college early in order to preserve their eligibility for a student - aid program of the Social Security Administration.

The Foundation's pro bono program develops pro bono partnerships with bar associations, law firms, courts, law schools and legal aid organizations to: increase and maintain the number of lawyers who take pro bono cases; increase the number of individuals, both low - income and special populations, that receive free legal assistance; and assist pro bono providers to be more effective and efficient through innovation and technology.

The Result: In 2013, Texas legal aid programs received approximately $ 20.8 million in funds through appropriations and court fees and fines, almost 300 percent more than the $ 5.4 million received 10 years ago.

Collectively, lawyers are encouraged to enhance the profession through activities such as: (a) sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and students informally in day - to - day practice as well as through contribution to professional journals and publications, support of law school projects and participation in panel discussions, legal education seminars, bar admission courses and university lectures; (b) participating in legal aid and community legal services programs or providing legal services on a pro bono basis; (c) filling elected and volunteer positions with the Society; (d) acting as directors, officers and members of local, provincial, national and international bar associations and their various committees and sections; and (e) acting as directors, officers and members of non-profit or charitable organizations.

In fact, as part of my job with Pro Bono Net, a nonprofit that works with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and courts to improve access to justice through increasing volunteerism, collaboration, and effective use of technology, I've had the opportunity to work with Pro Bono Law Ontario and seen how adding technology to their service delivery (both as support for their programs and as information for the general public) has allowed them to be more effective and efficient in their work.

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 organizatLegal Assistance for Our Veterans Grant program, which is programmed to fund legal aid groups, legal clinics, or nonprofit organizatlegal aid groups, legal clinics, or nonprofit organizatlegal clinics, or nonprofit organizations.

Joining a civil legal aid team using impact litigation and advocacy as its primary tools to pursue justice and equal rights through authentic and holistic service delivery to clients, CLSMF's Director of Litigation will support, refine, build, and maintain best in class approaches to support the expertise of our diverse and highly talented legal team, this Florida Attorney in good standing and experienced legal services litigator, will utilize the ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple complex cases in state and federal courts, while also monitoring and troubleshooting dozens of other significant cases handled by program staff.

And so, it took a concerted effort of different legal aid organizations in Tanzania to come together - one, and start the conversation and then after that, within a larger legal sector, reform programs, start having these conversations with government as well - through the Ministry of Justice and other justice sector ministries - for us to have a proper conversation around: how do we increase justice?

• I have received an annual Award in Recognition and Appreciation from the Montgomery County Volunteer Pro Bono Legal Aid Program for 2009 through the present year.

Through a partnership with the University of Akron, the Akron Bar Association, and Community Legal Aid, this program is an excellent opportunity to get hands - on experience in consumer law.

Every year, the Alliance for Equal Justice directly helps more than 70,000 low - income and vulnerable people in Washington state secure justice through a network of civil legal aid programs that provide legal information, advice, direct representation and administrative and legislative advocacy.

Access Legal Care has effectively enacted a program through their Access Legal System model to aid clients in need.

The Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit agency that provides access to justice through free civil legal aid to low - income residents of East King County Washington and to low - income survivors of domestic violence throughout King CoLegal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit agency that provides access to justice through free civil legal aid to low - income residents of East King County Washington and to low - income survivors of domestic violence throughout King Colegal aid to low - income residents of East King County Washington and to low - income survivors of domestic violence throughout King County.

Addressing the myriad of issues necessarily involves bringing law societies, law schools, courts, bar associations, legal aid programs, community based providers, government and others to the table, recognizing their interdependence and that much more will be accomplished through collaboration than through silo - based efforts.

Sherrie Abney conducted a collaborative law training on behalf of the Section for staff paralegals through the Dallas Volunteer Attorneys Program, and volunteer collaborative lawyers are being solicited to provide pro bono collaborative law services to eligible clients in family law and civil disputes alike through DVAP and Legal Aid of Northwest Texas.

The program will deploy attorneys and paralegals to provide critically needed civil legal aid to immigrant communities throughout New Mexico from September 2016 through August 2020.»

Examples include teaching young people about the law through the Edward J. Lewis Lawyers in the Classroom or Street Law programs, or mentoring law students who are interested in legal aid and public service careers.

Allen's past and present pro-bono work includes serving as a volunteer appellate lawyer for the Mercer Law School's Habeas Corpus Project and the Georgia Public Defender's Standards Council, as a volunteer lawyer for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children and Miami - Dade Legal Aid's «Put Something Back Program,» and as a bar exam tutor through the Dade County Bar Association's Bar Passage Program.

Through the grant program, legal aid organizations from different states bid on tech projects that hold the promise to improve the delivery of legal services.

Every case we refer to the Pro Bono program has gone through Legal Aid's intake process to determine program eligibility.

Through LawHelp.org, people can be linked to their state's free legal aid programs, information and forms.

Crown briefs will cycle from office to office making periodic field trips outside the confines of Crown control entirely as they meander leisurely through a courthouse occupied by police, bail program, legal aid, mental health, and victim witness programs.

(a) legal services or summary advice provided as a duty counsel under the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998 or through any other duty counsel or other advisory program operated by a not - for - profit organizalegal services or summary advice provided as a duty counsel under the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998 or through any other duty counsel or other advisory program operated by a not - for - profit organizaLegal Aid Services Act, 1998 or through any other duty counsel or other advisory program operated by a not - for - profit organization;

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.

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Western School of Law's Juvenile Mediation Training Program through the Legal Aid Society and studied at the Real Estate Mediation Center under Peter Robison, a Pepperdine Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution instructor.

The most common way is through mediation programs run by the Courts, Family Court Counsellors, lawyers or Legal Aid.

ATSIS notes that «This relatively small and under - resourced program is unable to address the barriers Indigenous women face in accessing Indigenous Legal Aid services, nor to provide the range of legal services available through ATSILS&raLegal Aid services, nor to provide the range of legal services available through ATSILS&ralegal services available through ATSILS».

On December 5, 2017, Legal Aid of North Carolina announced that it had settled a federal discrimination complaint filed against Wake County Human Services on behalf of a disabled woman who received rental assistance through the county's Rental Assistance Housing Program.