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Foundation Hiring Access to Justice Manager

Position Overview: Job title: Access to Justice Manager Status: Full-time Exempt Employee Starting salary: Commensurate with experience About Us: The Ohio Access to Justice Foundation (Foundation) is a nonprofit foundation committed to ensuring that low-income and underserved Ohioans can fully and fairly participate in civil systems that produce just outcomes. To achieve this, the Foundation [...]

2025-06-27T12:34:48-05:00June 27th, 2025|

Vorys’ Commitment to Pro Bono Starts at the Top

For busy attorneys who cite time as the most significant barrier to pro bono service, Rodney Holaday, a partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, and chair of the firm’s pro bono committee, offers an idea. Holaday likens volunteering to saving. “If you build it into your schedule first and roll into it, you can [...]

2025-06-17T11:31:24-05:00June 17th, 2025|

Judge Mary Jane Trapp Posthumously Receives Elam Award

The Ohio Access to Justice Foundation was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Judge Mary Jane Trapp on April 24. On May 13, the Foundation posthumously awarded Judge Trapp the John C. and Ginny Elam Pro Bono Award. The Foundation recently took over stewardship of the Elam Award, a recognition [...]

2025-05-14T13:43:20-05:00May 14th, 2025|

Pro Bono Ohio Launches: New Site is Pro Bono Made Easy

Convenient. User-friendly. Customizable. These are just a few of the adjectives that describe Pro Bono Ohio, a new online platform from the Ohio Access to Justice Foundation that helps connect volunteer lawyers with pro bono opportunities around the state. Pro Bono Ohio centralizes and streamlines pro bono opportunities in a user-friendly database that the legal [...]

2025-05-19T10:17:36-05:00May 14th, 2025|

Foundation Releases 2024 Annual Report: Justice Opens Doors

The Foundation’s newly released 2024 annual report explores how justice is a defining factor in opening doors to better jobs, more stable families, and financial security. It transforms uncertainty into security and potential into progress. Justice is more than a concept — it’s a catalyst. It fuels opportunities that ensure everyone can succeed. Access to [...]

2025-05-14T10:36:36-05:00May 14th, 2025|

Thompson Hine to Receive 2025 Presidential Award

The Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project (GDVLP) and Thompson Hine’s Dayton office have a long-standing relationship stretching back decades. When GDVLP identifies legal needs in the community, it relies on partners like Thompson Hine to provide volunteer lawyers to help low-income Daytonians resolve their civil legal challenges. One ongoing bi-monthly project — the landlord/tenant clinic [...]

2025-04-09T11:25:20-05:00April 8th, 2025|

Rural Ohio has LASCO Attorney Valerie Hendrickson’s Heart

Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio (LASCO) lawyer Valerie Hendrickson comes from a long line of attorneys. Her great-great-grandfather established a practice in her hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio. Her grandfather continued to run that practice until he retired at age 90. Her father and uncle are both attorneys. Now, Hendrickson has followed in [...]

2025-04-08T10:01:48-05:00April 8th, 2025|