The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Presidential Award is presented annually to law firms or individuals who have made outstanding efforts in improving access to justice through pro bono or volunteer service. Past recipients include GE Aviation Legal Department (2014); Bricker & Eckler LLP (2013), and the Ohio State Bar Association (2012). Nominations for the award [...]
The University of Akron's Nursing Center for Community Health will integrate a medical-legal partnership with Community Legal Aid Services into its nurse-managed clinic. Medical-legal partnerships address the legal issues that may undermine patients' health. Read more here.
Kate McGarvey, managing attorney at Columbus Legal Aid sees many cases where clients receive hospital aid but are sued by outside practices providing inpatient services. Read legal aid client, Michelle Brown's story here.
Melissa LaRocco, Pro Bono Director for Legal Aid of Western Ohio, is the recipient of the Findlay-Hancock County Bar Association's 11th Jackson E. Betts Professionalism Award. Read more here.
The Legal Aid Society of Columbus attorney, Kate McGarvey, sees the impact of new rules governing billing by nonprofit hospitals. Read more here
Thanks to rule changes adopted by the Ohio Supreme Court in late 2012, attorneys may for the first time receive Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit for pro bono work on a case referred by a legal aid or other pro bono organization. All requests for CLE credit earned through pro bono work in 2014 must [...]
In early January, more than 40,000 Ohio attorneys will receive an email from the Ohio Supreme Court asking attorneys to participate in voluntary pro bono reporting. Pro bono reporting is conducted by the Supreme Court in collaboration with the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation. Read more here.
"In Plain Sight," an NBC online series about how poverty and inequality affect the lives of millions of Americans, focuses on the medical-legal partnership between The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and Metro Health System. Read more here.
Marie B. Curry, a Managing Attorney for Akron-based Community Legal Aid, is the 2014 Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Murphy Award winner. Created by the Foundation in 1998, the award is named for the late Denis Murphy, a Columbus lawyer and founding member of the Foundation who advocated for strong funding for civil legal aid. Ms. [...]
Legal Aid of Western Ohio, serving 32 counties in Northwestern Ohio, has launched a LiveChat Project which connects legal aid clients with volunteer attorneys for online chat-based counsel and advice. Read more here.
