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2015 General News

December

Lippman, New York's top judge, used power for good (NY)

Groups Filling the Justice Gap

Historic Settlement Overhauls Solitary Confinement in New York

  • By: New York Civil Liberties Union
  • 12/17/2015
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Legal Live Chat Available for Foreclosure Litigants (NY)

New York to Aid Immigrants Amid Stalled National Reforms (NY)

Legal Live Chat Available for Foreclosure Litigants

Can Technology Help the Middle Class Close the Justice Gap?

Legal Aid Group Gets Grant to Assist South Texas Immigrants (TX)

November

Texas Supreme Court tackles high cost of legal help (TX)

With Legal Aid, Immigrant Advocates Turn Focus to Citizenship

Grant to Create Civil Legal Service Website for Victims (NY)

New attorney general program provides free legal help for troops (NV)

New York State Office of Victim Services awarded nearly $1 million in federal funding to create unique Crime Victims’ Legal Network

  • By: Office of Victim Services | Division of Criminal Justice Services
  • 11/17/2015
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Nonprofit Maine Community Law Center offers lower-cost legal service (ME)

Sullivan bill urging free legal aid for domestic violence victims passes Senate (AK)

State’s poor lack access to legal help (WA)

Louisiana Supreme Court establishes Access to Justice Commission (LA)

What Can I Do to Honor Veterans Day? A Message from the Military Pro Bono Project

  • By: ABA Military Pro Bono Project
  • 11/11/2015
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White House Seeks to Ease Veterans’ Access to Care

Manatt Named 'Pro Bono Partner of the Year' For Work With Veterans

Texas Veterans Legal Aid Week (TX)

LSC Awards More Than $4.2 Million in 2015 Technology Grants to Legal Aid Organizations

  • By: Legal Services Corporation
  • 11/04/2015
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October

Harvard Law School Launches "Free the Law" Project with Ravel Law to Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access

Justice Gap For The Low Income Has Widened In Washington (WA)

Domestic violence awareness month targets abuse

  • By: The Newnan Times-Herald
  • 10/28/2015
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Sanctuary for Families Hosts the 2015 Above & Beyond Pro Bono Awards

Indiana Supreme Court awards total of $450K in court grants (IN)

Free legal aid offered this week in northern Nevada (NV)

National Celebrate Pro Bono Week 2015: Volunteer A Day Initiative

Cuts to legal aid an injustice to North Carolina’s poor (NC)

Commission hears about justice problems (MT)

Judge turns off cameras in Staten Island courthouse meeting rooms (NY)

Walmart supports Legal Aid (VA)

Judge approves NYC jail reforms, urging 'rapid' progress

130 Top Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Urge End to Mass Incarceration

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/21/2015
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Harford Bar Foundation sets up three new services for Pro Bono Month (MD)

Montana Supreme Court: Access To Justice At Risk (MT)

'Low Bono' Project Aims to Close Gap for Modest-Income Clients (NY)

Missouri Supreme Court establishes commission on minority fairness (MO)

One-Third Of 6,000 Prisoners Due For Release Are Undocumented Immigrants Facing Deportation

  • By: International Business Times
  • 10/13/2015
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2015 Kentucky Hopeline Drive helps victims of domestic abuse (KY)

Access To Justice Likely To Include Web Portal (FL)

A Law That Hides Police Misconduct From the Public (NY)

State panel pushes for online access to court help (FL)

The Reverse Mass Incarceration Act

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/12/2015
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Brooklyn Program Erasing Warrants for Low-Level Offenses (NY)

U.S. to Release 6,000 Inmates From Prisons

Supreme Court Prepares to Take On Politically Charged Cases (DC)

Students should be aware of their free legal resources

Legal Aid Nonprofit Selected for Large Google Grant - You Can Double it by Voting!

  • By: Bayview/Hunters Point Community Legal
  • 10/03/2015
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Free legal services for poor promoted in October (NM)

Attorney training to benefit victims of domestic violence (IN)

National Pro Bono Month creates access to justice (AL)

September

New courthouse cameras for security, not spying (NY)

ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE LEGAL AID INTERAGENCY ROUNDTABLE

  • By: The United States Department of Justice
  • 09/28/2015
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Justice Department Announces $26 Million in Grants to Develop and Strengthen Criminal Justice and Community Partnerships to Address Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating and Stalking

NYC to Target Evictions in Bid to Curb Homelessness (NY)

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 09/28/2015
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Helping LGBTQ asylum-seekers and immigrants destined for Seattle (WA)

Ohio fees for debt collection questioned (OH)

Inmate Bill of Rights Among New Wave of Rikers Reforms (NY)

NM courts work on Native language training system (NM)

Idaho Legal Aid receives grant for pro bono services (ID)

Kennedy: Equal access to justice

  • By: The MetroWest Daily News
  • 09/19/2015
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New clinic hopes to prevent homelessness (NC)

US Appeals Immigration Family Detention Decision

Law Firms, Courts Brace for Pope's D.C. Visit

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 09/17/2015
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State Settles Lawsuit Surrounding Insufficient Prison Healthcare (VA)

White House Announces 'Stand Stronger' Citizenship Awareness Campaign

Suit Alleges ‘Scheme’ in Criminal Costs Borne by New Orleans’s Poor (LA)

Florida Considers Automation to Keep Legal Aid Costs Lower (FL)

Senate-approved plan would promote legal services for low-income Californians (CA)

USDOJ: Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief in Pennsylvania Right to Counsel Case (PA)

Attorneys will offer free advice at San Juan County Legal Fair (CO)

California Passes Landmark Automatic Registration Bill (CA)

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 09/11/2015
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Supreme Court justice targets court language barriers

BigLaw firm offers pro bono help to low-income lawyers facing ethics charges in Illinois (IL)

Judiciary Self-Help Centers Provide Aid to Over 10K (HI)

Utah Supreme Court rules in immigration predicament (UT)

Tips from a Family Court judge

Free Dallas clinics help veterans get access to legal services (TX)

  • By: The Dallas Morning News
  • 09/03/2015
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Court stays ruling that could strip state judicial branch of funding (KS)

Pro Bono Firm Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

Spring Creek Towers Sued for Barring Tenants on De Blasio's Rent Program (NY)

Texas Tech School of Law Adds New Graduation Requirement (TX)

Pro Bono Firm Of 2015: Dechert

Program Provides Counsel to Housing Court Clients (NY)

  • By: The New York Law Journal
  • 09/01/2015
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How Legal Incubators are Trying to Train New Lawyers and Solve the ‘Justice Gap’ (CA)

August

NYC Official Overseeing Homelessness and Health Care to Leave (NY)

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 08/31/2015
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Bricks and mortar part of success (OK)

  • By: Tulsa Business & Legal News
  • 08/31/2015
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School of Law announces new service requirement for first-year students (TX)

Editorial: A campaign for wider civil justice (NH)

Legal aid group to train lawyers for disability hearings (KY)

Pro Bono Firm Of 2015: Covington & Burling

In Brooklyn: A New Initiative Against Exploitative Landlords

Civil Legal Aid Must Play a Larger Role in Disaster Recovery

Greenberg Traurig Sponsors Holly Skolnick Fellowship Foundation 2015 Class

Pro Bono Firm Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

East New York Tenants Protest Living Conditions; Lawsuit Filed Against Landlord

N.J. Supreme Court rules in favor of abused immigrant children fighting deportation

Tech law school to announce public service graduation requirement (TX)

  • By: Lubbock Avalanche - Journal
  • 08/26/2015
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The Justice Gap: If you care about equity, legal aid belongs high on the list of crucial disaster recovery programs.

  • By: National Housing Institute
  • 08/24/2015
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WilmerHale Top Contributor in Legal Aid Society’s Generous Associates Campaign

Why one person became a public interest lawyer

Smokeball Partners With Community Activism Law Alliance (IL)

Employing Civil Legal Aid in Closing the Wage Gap

Opinion: Legal Aid Off To Great Start (IL)

An innovative approach to community health (DE)

An innovative approach to community health

Vermont chapter of NAACP receives 'avalanche' of housing discrimination complaints (VT)

Project to Honor Outstanding Pro Bono and Indigent Defense Counsel on September 10th

  • By: ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
  • 08/06/2015
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The Voting Rights Act 50 Years Later

A Challenge on Civil Advocacy Legal Aid Outcome Meaures

  • By: Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog
  • 08/06/2015
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A Challenge on Civil Advocacy Legal Aid Outcome Meaures

  • By: Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog
  • 08/06/2015
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NAACP to Offer Free Legal Aid to St. Louis County (MO)

Kennedy: Courts are major challenge to domestic violence victims

REACH UP CUTS TO DISABLED RECIPIENTS HELD OFF FOR TWO MONTHS (VT)

Civil Rights Panel to Examine Housing Discrimination in Vermont (WA)

Pro bono spotlight: Persistence achieves great outcome for client

  • By: Financial News & Daily Record
  • 08/03/2015
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Undermining Our Third Branch and Delaying Justice

July

$7M Chase settlement boosts state-supported Chicago nonprofit (IL)

LSC’s James Sandman: We Need Technology & Paraprofessionals

One Way Cuts to Public Service Loan Forgiveness Will Harm Americans

The New York Bar Foundation Announced New Officers and Welcomes New Board Members (NY)

Legal Services Groups Win Grants for Benefit Appeals (NY)

Commentary: Legal Aid Resource Center Should Be Saved (CT)

  • By: Connecticut Law Tribune
  • 07/30/2015
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Two Attorneys at Capes, Sokol Selected for Missouri Bar Pro Bono Wall of Fame

  • By: Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, P.C.
  • 07/30/2015
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$7 Million in funding provided to help disabled obtain federal benefits (NY)

Funding shortfalls limit access to legal services for poor (NJ)

Accused batterers get free legal representation but domestic violence victims don't

Legal Assistance Aids Those Appealing Denial of Benefits (NY)

New York to provide $7 million in legal aid for people denied federal disability benefits (NY)

The Cambridge Foundation Awards the Foundation for Financial Planning $50,000 (GA)

  • By: Virtual-Strategy Magazine
  • 07/28/2015
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Rep. Kennedy hopes to close "gap" in access to legal services for low-income residents (MA)

Undocumented UC Students May Find Paths to Citizenship With New Legal Aid (CA)

Legal Aid may close doors without donations (NJ)

High Lifetime Chance of Being Poor Suggests a New Legal Aid/ATJ Funding Argument

Suit Aims To Halt Benefits Cuts - Impending Cuts Affect Vt. Families (VT)

Under Obama's New Policies, 87 Percent of Undocumented Immigrants Won't Be Targeted For Deportation

Lippman Makes Permanent Panel on Access to Justice (NY)

Vermont Legal Aid Suit Aims To Halt Cuts To Low-Income Cash Benefits (VT)

LSNYC AND UHAB FILE LAWSUIT TO COMPEL NYC TO LIVE UP TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROMISE (NY)

Judges mull rise of pro se litigants at LSC meeting (MN)

New California Law Gives Free IDs To Homeless People So They Can Access Housing, School (CA)

How Florida’s judicial system violates the federal Civil Rights Act and leaves non-English speakers out in the cold (FL)

CT Legal Aid Fights To Keep Services Amid Cuts (CT)

City’s Tenant Protection Effort Breaks Ground and Ruffles Feathers (NY)

Lawyers ask state high court to reconsider legal-aid ruling (FL)

Signal International Workers Get Pro Bono Help

New York City’s great shame: Homelessness is at its highest point since the Great Depression (NY)

NYC Council Speaker Celebrates End of Unaccompanied Minors Representation Crisis (NY)

U.S. needs renewal of a core value: access to justice (MN)

Formerly Homeless Tenants in Prospect-Lefferts Building Fight Order to Move (NY)

Iowa Legal Aid to help disaster survivors (IA)

New York Courts Win 2015 Legaltech Innovation Award

Legal Aid Society and Volunteer Attorneys Provide $22.7 Million Worth of Free Legal Assistance in 2014 (TN)

Florida Supreme Court Denies Bar Dues Hike for Legal Aid (FL)

LSC, Nebraska and Iowa Legal Aid Groups Introduce Disaster Response Grants, Rural Legal Program (DC)

  • By: Legal Services Corporation
  • 07/10/2015
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New York needs immigration relief

State Distributes $8.1M for Immigrant Legal Centers (NY)

SC Bar Foundation awards $1.9 million in grants (SC)

Business Law Pro Bono: How Business Law Lawyers Contribute to Economic Justice from Fredrikson & Byron

  • By: Minneapolis Fredrikson & Byron
  • 07/08/2015
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The Justice Gap: Corporate Lawyers Are Making Record Revenues, But Legal Aid Is In Crisis

O’Melveny Featured in AmLaw’s 2015 Pro Bono Report

Revised Maryland Rules For Waiving Prepayment of Court Costs (MD)

  • By: Montgomery Community Media
  • 07/07/2015
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Ropes & Gray to Use Class Action Fees for Pro Bono Work

Pro bono spotlight: Guardian ad Litem attorneys give voice to kids (FL)

June

"Legal Incubators" Are a Good Response to the Need to Provide Legal Services to People of Modest Means (CA)

  • By: Legal Broadcast Network
  • 06/30/2015
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The Remaining Chinese in DC's Chinatown Fight for Their Sense of Community (D.C.)

Pregnant border crossers being detained more, longer (AZ)

Big Law and Legal Aid

Fellowships Are Another Way To Support Legal Aid

Running out of Time: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and a Fight for Healthcare (CA)

  • By: KAWL - Local Public Radio
  • 06/29/2015
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Equal justice remains elusive for the poor

There’s just one legal aid lawyer for every 8,893 low-income Americans who qualify for them

The Justice Gap: How Big Law Is Failing Legal Aid

Teaming up to help Pittsburgh-area tenants in public housing eviction cases

  • By: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • 06/28/2015
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Federal Pro Se Assistant Program (NY)

Tenant takes Housing Authority to court (AR)

Political Refugee Finds New Home (MN)

Self-help legal center available on Mondays (OK)

American Bar Association President Pushes Online Models for Civil Disputes

Pay forward an ethos of giving

Pro Bono Christian legal clinic opens up in Kensington (PA)

Pro bono spotlight: Attorneys help immigrants become U.S. citizens (FL)

  • By: Financial News & Daily Record
  • 06/22/2015
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Celebrate the 16th Anniversary of Olmstead at OlmsteadRights.org!

  • By: Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.
  • 06/21/2015
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The U.S. Supreme Court Hands Down 2 Decisions on Immigration (U.S.)

New citizens to be sworn in at Anaheim ceremony

  • By: The Orange County Register
  • 06/19/2015
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Portland faces asylum decision on costly aid for asylum seekers (OR)

LouisianaLawHelp.org Launches Mobile Website in Spanish

  • By: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
  • 06/18/2015
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What You Need To Know Now That Rent Regulations Have Expired (NY)

How We Got Here: City Creates New Office of Civil Justice (NY)

Legal Services State Support Launches LawHelpMN.org Mobile Website

  • By: Legal Services State Support
  • 06/15/2015
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Study: State’s low-income residents lack legal aid access (WA)

Greenberg Traurig Attorneys Elected Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation (TX)

Hope and Despair as Families Languish in Texas Immigration Centers (TX)

Every Community Should Have a Civil Justice Coordinator and Coordinating Council (NY)

  • By: Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog
  • 06/13/2015
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Immigration Reform News: Senate Panel Blocks Legal Funding for Immigrant Children

District attorneys decry prospect of court closings (MA)

Tax on Legal Services a Top Issue for PBA President (PA)

Texas Supreme Court justices praise legal aid (TX)

  • By: The Dallas Morning News
  • 06/09/2015
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7 awesome projects from this year’s National Day of Civic Hacking

BP Adams Announces Access to Legal Services Program (NY)

Why It’s So Hard To Get Migrant Kids In Rural Minnesota Through Immigration Court (MN)

House Spending Bill Cuts LSC Budget By 20 Percent

  • By: Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
  • 06/04/2015
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Civil Legal Aid Research

  • By: US Department of Justice
  • 06/03/2015
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Local Nonprofit Now Providing Legal Aid for Immigrants (CO)

We don’t need fewer lawyers. We need cheaper ones.

Pro bono spotlight: Family law attorneys assist hundreds annually

Office of Military Legal Assistance: Securing Justice for the Armed Forces at Home (NV)

Don’t cut Legal Services’ budget (Editorial)

May

HOW TO GET LEGAL HELP AFTER HOUSTON'S FLOODS

Council Votes to Create New 'Office of Civil Justice' (NY)

Legal Help for Flood Victims, Volunteers Welcome

Am Law 100 Firms Looking Out for Military Employees

Fla. Supreme Court chief pushes for civil justice

Program Providing Legal Help to Immigrants Will Expand Beyond New York City

Pro se vs. pro bono (CO)

Tennessee law project gets national attention (TN)

  • By: Memphis Business Journal
  • 05/13/2015
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Wilson/My Turn: Civil legal aid needs funding (MA)

Pro Bono Net Staff Shares Expertise at 2015 Equal Justice Conference

OCA Adopts Changes to Pro Bono Reporting

Editorial: Texas must expand funding for legal aid

  • By: The Dallas Morning News (Opinion)
  • 05/03/2015
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Frank Stevenson Elected State Bar President-Elect

April

ABA project provides legal help to immigrants who face deportation

Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Adopts New Online Arbitration Service

Prosecutorial Prioritization

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 04/27/2015
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Latham Becomes the New No. 1

William Hyslop: Further court cuts jeopardize system (WA)

Stoughton attorney works to extend legal aid to poor (MA)

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION MOURNS PASSING OF FORMER PRESIDENT ROBERT P. PATTERSON, JR.

  • By: New York State Bar (NY)
  • 04/24/2015
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Georgetown's Iron Tech competition grows in audience and interest

Greenberg Traurig’s William C. Silverman Receives City & State Reports' 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Award

KIND Honors Greenberg Traurig with Pro Bono Award

Restraining order application forms now available in 9 languages in Massachusetts (MA)

Bar Leaders Debate How to Bridge the Access-to-Justice Gap (GA)

Justice for all, not only for those who can afford it (WA)

  • By: The Seattle Times (Opinion)
  • 04/18/2015
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CA Rep. Demands Court Efficiency in Speech to 'Rebel' Trial Judges (CA)

  • By: Courthouse News Service
  • 04/13/2015
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Georgetown Pairs Up With DLA Piper, Arent Fox to Open Low Bono Firm (DC)

A Need for Civil Legal Aid

  • By: New York Times (Opinion)
  • 04/10/2015
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In Housing Court, Lawyers for the Lucky

Tennessee Supreme Court adds way for lawyers to donate money for access to justice (TN)

New York Officials Push Right to Counsel in Civil Cases (NY)

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 04/05/2015
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Justice system properly funded (NM)

About Those Firms That Didn’t Score Pro Bono Honors

March

Ballard Spahr Honored as Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year (Press Release)

How to Find Legal Help When You Can't Afford a Lawyer

  • By: US News and World Report
  • 03/26/2015
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In NY, Volunteer Attorneys Lend Voice, Legal Help, To Border Kids

Latham Pro Bono Work Helps StoryCorps Launch App

New York City Council Initiative Ensuring All Unaccompanied Minors in NYC Have Lawyers

‘I Have A Name’ exhibit focuses on journey of undocumented immigrants

When justice talks: Translating services in demand in courts

Can’t afford a lawyer? How courtroom innovations help self-represented litigants

Justice steps up assistance efforts for troops, vets

Public Funding for D.C. Civil Legal Aid On the Rise

How the path of the Utah immigration debate turned a corner (UT)

Legal aid for poor merits legislative approval (TX)

Injunction Against Administration’s Immigration Programs Puts Pro Bono Efforts on Hold

  • By: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
  • 03/16/2015
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Guest opinion: Representation in civil law often inaccessible (WA)

Lack of pro-bono lawyers an issue for unaccompanied children in immigration cases

Hackathon promotes access to lawyers (LA)

  • By: New Orleans City Business
  • 03/10/2015
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Department of Justice Provides Legal Aid to Unaccompanied Child Immigrants

U.S. immigration officials announce 2,000 arrests in nationwide raids

Voto Latino to Help Legal Permanent Residents Understand Naturalization Process, Become US Citizens With New Tech Program

7,000 immigrant children ordered deported without going to court

  • By: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-children-deported-20150306-story.html#page=1
  • 03/06/2015
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Gaps in legal justice tackled by UNM law professor (New Mexico)

  • By: University of New Mexico
  • 03/05/2015
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Move it Along: Feds Want Ruling by Monday in Immigration Suit

House panel passes bill to send migrant kids home faster

Local officials support granting undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses

Immigrants View Test Prep as a Ticket to Better Future

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 03/01/2015
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February

U.S. clemency effort, slow to start, will rely on an army of pro bono lawyers

DAPA-Eligible Immigrants Face Threat Of Deportation, Advocates Say

Legal Services Van Hits the Streets For Homeless Teens (CT)

  • By: Connecticut Law Tribune
  • 02/23/2015
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Corporations help pay legal aid costs for the poor in Connecticut (CT)

More funding needed to help low-income families in court (MA)

2015 TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono – Submission period now open

Class-action suits: Oregon House votes to redirect unclaimed awards to legal aid (OR)

Immigration Advocates Launch New Website on Unaccompanied Minors

  • By: Immigration Advocates Network (Courtesy of PRLog)
  • 02/11/2015
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SC Bar Foundation awards $1.9 million in grants (SC)

January

Recent high court ruling extends right to counsel

  • By: Independent Record, Montana
  • 01/20/2015
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NYPD Agrees to Change Public Housing Patrols in Settlement