Recent News

A new report on the state of poverty in Ohio concludes that despite an improved outlook for employment, half of Ohioans live paycheck to paycheck. Read more here.

As National Consumer Protection Week, coordinated by the Federal Trade Commission to help protect consumers from financial exploitation and abuse, is observed nationally from March 1 to March 7, Ohio Veterans Legal Corps (VLC) lawyers work to protect low income and vulnerable veterans from scams and predators. In Licking County, veteran "Charles Lake", a pseudonym [...]

Toledo lawyer Eugenio Mollo Jr. has turned a lifelong interest in immigrants into a career with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, where he serves as the Managing Attorney for the Migrant Farmworker Rights Practice Group and was previously a Foundation-funded Equal Justice Works Fellow. Read more here.

The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation and the Supreme Court of Ohio are reminding and encouraging Ohio attorneys to take part in voluntary pro bono reporting. The opportunity to report 2014 pro bono activities is available through March 31. Read more here.

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 [...]