The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation is winding down its support for the Judicially Led Appellate District Pro Bono Project. The Project, created in 2007 by then-Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) President Robert Ware of Cleveland, created committees of judges and lawyers in each of Ohio’s 12 appellate districts. The committees created or supplemented pro bono [...]
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality is leading a collaborative effort to enact a law in Toledo that would require landlords to correct lead-related problems before renting a home or apartment to a family with children. A recent Toledo Blade editorial praised ABLE's efforts. Read more here.
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor notes that legal aid lawyers and public defenders are available to help at-need Ohioans facing jail time for unpaid court costs or fines. Read more here.
Jim Petro, former Ohio Attorney General and an emeritus member of the Foundation's board of trustees, has joined the Toledo-based law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick. Read more here.
Foundation Executive Director Angela Lloyd is serving on the Ohio Supreme Court's Task Force on Access to Justice, which held its first meeting on August 1. The task force is studying obstacles that low income and disadvantaged Ohioans may face when going to court for a civil legal problem. Read more here.
Columbus attorney Kathleen Trafford, partner at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, has been elected president of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation board of trustees. Trafford succeeds Ritchey Hollenbaugh of the Columbus firm Carlile, Patchen & Murphy LLP, who served as president for three years. David A. Kutik, a partner at Jones Day in Cleveland, was [...]
Nearly 70 percent of attorneys participating in the Supreme Court of Ohio's voluntary reporting of pro bono activities stated they provided pro bono legal services to at-need Ohioans during 2013. Since 2009, the Supreme Court has requested annually that attorneys report pro bono legal services and charitable contributions to Ohio organizations providing legal services to [...]
A new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that a quarter of Ohio's children live in poverty, and nearly a third live in homes where no parent works full time. Read more here.
The Cincinnati Child Health-Law Partnership (Child HeLP) was recognized in the New York Times as an innovative approach to advancing the health of children living in poverty. Read more here.
In the new Columbus Lawyers Quarterly, Marissa Weldon, legislative liaison at the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation, urges new attorneys to volunteer and raise money for legal aid. Read more here.
