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Importance of White House Initiative, Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, Gets Recognition in DC Bar Journal (Blog)
Thursday, April 28, 2016
- Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog
- Link: https://accesstojustice.net
"he current issue of Washington Lawyer, the DC bar journal, contains a great article on the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable.
The article, under the title Ensuring Justice for All: The White House Plan, finally gives some public recognition to the importance and potential of this initiative. As the article puts it:
A White House announcement on September 24, 2015, may signal a change in the federal government’s involvement in access to justice efforts. On that day President Obama formally established the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR), which brings together 21 federal agencies to work on expanding access to legal services for the most vulnerable and undeserved people in our communities."