Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton is the 2012 Ohio honorary chair for the National Pro Bono Celebration. The Celebration is the week of October 21-27. The Pro Bono Celebration, in its fourth year, highlights the part that pro bono lawyers play to help provide vital civil legal services to people who cannot [...]
The Legal Aid of Western Ohio, and Associates for Basic Legal Equality, civil legal aid organizations serving 32 counties in northwestern Ohio, have been chosen to receive the 2012 Nonprofit Excellence Award. The Award, given annually by the Toledo Foundation and The Blade, in partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Resources, recognizes a large nonprofit [...]
Cleveland Municipal Court's Veterans Treatment Docket is nearing its first anniversary, with a docket of nearly 100 veterans and optimism about the value and effectiveness of the court from both court officials and the veterans who have been referred to it. To read more, click here.
Community Legal Aid Services in Akron has pioneered a clinic that teaches people who have been sued on an unpaid credit card, and can't afford to hire an attorney, how to understand and respond to the suit. To read more, click here.
The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation today announced the creation of the position of Development Director. The Foundation seeks a creative, strategic, energetic person with a commitment to access to justice for all low income Ohioans. The Development Director will be responsible for the Foundation’s philanthropic fundraising. The position was created by the Foundation’s recently adopted [...]
A recent survey by the federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) revealed that LSC-funded legal aid societies across the country expected to reduce staff in 2012 because of funding cuts. Legal aid societies reported anticipated staff cuts in 2012 of more than 700 employees, including 325 attorneys. The reductions represent a loss of eight percent of [...]
Across the country, the smooth operation of courts has been impacted by the crush of litigants who are representing themselves because they can't afford to hire a lawyer. One way to deal with the problem is to encourage more lawyers to accept pro bono cases, according to an Associated Press story.
The Legal Aid Society of Columbus faces increasing requests for help from low income central Ohioans while funding for its operations has been drastically reduced. To read more, clickhere.
Proposed continuing legal education (CLE) changes announced by the Ohio Supreme Court would double the number of online credit hours attorneys could earn, allow attorneys to earn a portion of their CLE hours by engaging in approved pro bono activities, and eliminate the requirement to file final reporting transcripts. Under one of the proposed changes, [...]
New York's state funding for its civil legal aid delivery system has doubled, to $25 million. The funding increase was in response to a request by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who in 2010 created a task force to study the crisis in access to civil legal services and funding to support civil legal services for [...]
