The Lancaster office of Southeastern Ohio Legal Services will close its doors January 31. However, there are ongoing efforts by the local legal community to raise the funds to keep the office open one to two days a week.
The Joint Veterans Commission of Cuyahoga County will honor Cleveland attorney and Vietnam veteran Joseph P. Meissner as its 2013 Outstanding Veteran of the Year during the group's 89th anniversary dinner on Feb. 17. Meissner retired from The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in 2012, after 45 years of dedicated service. Read more here.
The Supreme Court of Ohio will begin this week to send emails to all Ohio attorneys on active registration, and with an email address on file at the Court's Attorney Services Division, inviting attorneys to participate in voluntary pro bono reporting for pro bono activities performed in 2013. The email, from sender "The Supreme Court [...]
Danielle Gadomski-Littleton, a fellow at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland whose position is funded by the Foundation and Washington, D.C.-based Equal Justice Works, helps youth aging out of foster care to navigate complex civil legal problems. Read more here.
Karen Hummel sought help from the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland in 1995 when she wanted to divorce her husband. The help she received from legal aid inspired her to become an attorney. Read Karen's story here.
Seven law school graduates are working as fellows on urgent issues facing veterans throughout Ohio as part of collaboration fellowship program between the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation, Equal Justice Works and AmeriCorps. The fellows, as part of the Veterans Legal Corps, work in legal aid organizations across the state and focus on solving civil legal [...]
After 33 years of providing free legal services for those who can least afford it, the Marietta office of Southeastern Ohio Legal Services will close next month, along with two other regional offices.
The Ohio Supreme Court and the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation will soon be asking Ohio attorneys to voluntarily report their pro bono activities for 2013. Read more here.
Southeastern Ohio Legal Services (SEOLS), an Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation-funded legal aid serving 30 counties in east and southeast Ohio, has announced that three of its offices are closing, effective January 31, 2014. The offices that are closing are located in Lancaster, Marietta and Zanesville. Residents of counties served by those offices will be directed [...]
Hundreds of poor people in Fairfield and Hocking counties and the lawyers who help them with civil court cases are bracing for the impact in the likely event that Southeastern Ohio Legal Services local office closes. The nonprofit legal aid organization serves low-income people in 30 counties covering much of the impoverished Appalachian Ohio region. [...]
