[from OSBA website] The Ohio State Bar Association announced the graduation of the first class of its Leadership Academy designed to identify future leaders in the legal community and provide them with support and training. "This is a remarkable group of younger attorneys who recognized the benefit of preparing for leadership roles in their firms [...]
[from the Supreme Court of Ohio] For her work in helping veterans access resources if they enter the court system, Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton received the *Veteran Advocate of the Year* award over the weekend. The Vietnam Veterans of America, Buckeye State Council, presented the award Saturday night in Dublin at [...]
AWARD RECIPIENT RECOGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF LEGAL AID CLIENTS IN OHIO Long-time legal aid advocate David Dawson is the 2010 recipient of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation's Denis Murphy Award. Dawson is the deputy director of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, which provides free legal representation to low-income clients [...]
The Board of Trustees of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation (OLAF) announces the search for a visionary, collaborative leader to serve as OLAF's next executive director. Established by Ohio law in 1994, the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization with responsibility for generating, collecting, managing and distributing funding for civil legal services [...]
COLUMBUS DISPATCH - Sunday, June 6, 2010 02:58 AM First, Sen. Sherrod Brown was upset because the Obama administration left Ohio out of a foreclosure-assistance program. Now, the Ohio Democrat is steamed again because none of the money coming to Ohio can be used by legal-aid societies to help homeowners. In March, the Treasury Department [...]
*From the Supreme Court of Ohio* A higher percentage of reporting Ohio attorneys performed pro bono work in 2009 than those who reported for 2008, according to the second annual results of pro bono activities statewide. The Supreme Court of Ohio, working in conjunction with the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation (OLAF), asked lawyers in January [...]
Attorneys Asked to Report Pro Bono Efforts The Supreme Court of Ohio will once again ask attorneys to voluntarily report their pro bono activities. The program, which documented attorneys' pro bono work for the first time in 2008, is designed to gather meaningful information about the extent and nature of pro bono work in Ohio [...]
OLAF's pro bono vision is for all Ohio lawyers and law students to have an opportunity to assist low income and disadvantaged Ohioans with their civil legal problems - gaining professional satisfaction by ensuring equal justice for all and strengthening communities. OLAF's pro bono mission is three-fold. - First, the Foundation provides a statewide leadership [...]
Relationship management is a key component to managing IOTA and IOLTA accounts in support of legal services. In Ohio, OLAF staff work daily to nurture, maintain and grow bank relationships to ensure a mutually beneficial relationship while upholding the mission of OLAF. Lawyers and title agents can significantly enhance the funds that are available for [...]
OLAF, working in collaboration with the Ohio Poverty Law Center (OPLC), all of Ohio's legal services programs, and the Ohio Attorney General's Save the Dream project, is helping Ohioans facing foreclosure work through their foreclosure-related problems, and in nearly 12% of the cases, are able to help people keep their homes. The success stories speak [...]
