Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) and Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO) have established a Meaningful and Appropriate Education Practice Group to address racial disparities in school disciplinary policies. Denise Zanni, an attorney with LAWO, states that "[m]ore than 70 percent of the students involved in school-related arrests" [are] Hispanic or African [...]
Community Legal Aid’s HelpLine will temporarily close Friday, March 28, Monday, March 31 and Tuesday, April 1 for staff training. Legal Aid’s online application system will remain open even though the HelpLine is closed. To apply online, visit www.communitylegalaid.org. The HelpLine will reopen Wednesday, April 2 at 9 a.m. “We appreciate everyone’s patience during the [...]
Foundation Executive Director, Angela Lloyd, and Board President, Ritchey Hollenbaugh will participate in this year's ABA Day, a three-day event hosted by the American Bar Association in Washington D.C., where lawyers meet with congressional members to discuss how issues of justice affect their constituents. Ms. Lloyd and Mr. Hollenbaugh, along with hundred of other lawyers, [...]
In this month's Ohio Lawyer cover story on the legal aid funding crisis, William Dowling, an Akron attorney and Foundation Board member, urges "all Ohio lawyers to support legal aid." Mr. Dowling writes that dramatic drops in funding for Ohio's legal aids have resulted in "fewer children maintained in school, fewer women obtaining civil protection [...]
Attorneys who wish to voluntarily report pro bono work performed in 2013 will now have until April 15 to do so. The website where attorneys may voluntarily and anonymously report pro bono activities will remain available online for an extra two weeks to assure adequate time for any attorney who may wish to participate. In [...]
Supreme Court of Ohio Administrative Director Steven C. Hollon has been named the first Executive Director for the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission (OCMC). As Administrative Director at the Court, Mr. Hollon has been responsible for managing the Foundation's grant from the Attorney Registration Fund. Read more about Mr. Hollon's tenure at the Court and his [...]
Foundation board member Janet Green Marbley is featured in a Court News Ohio video and story announcing awards from the Supreme Court of Ohio Clients' Security Fund. As Administrator of the Clients' Security Fund, Marbley states that "the fund was established in 1985 by the Supreme Court of Ohio with the purpose of improving the [...]
Chillicothe's proposed meth-cleanup law was put on hold after Southeastern Ohio Legal Services (SEOLS) sent a letter to the Chillicothe city council. The law would, among other things, require property owners to evacuate and board up the first floor of a building, and notify neighbors when police discover someone is making methamphetamine in the building. [...]
Bricker & Eckler LLP, 2013 recipient of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Presidential Award for Pro Bono Service, recently donated $10,000 to fight hunger in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Bricker & Eckler's generous donation will help support the Hunger Solutions Task Force Live Healthy Kids program in schools as well as provide for the local food [...]
Jamela Lott, an Akron mom of three young boys, was unable to keep up with her auto title loan. In January, she and her sons became homeless. With the help of legal aid, the auto title lender agreed to write off the debt. Mrs. Lott says she is thankful for legal aid's help and is [...]
