Hundreds of poor people in Fairfield and Hocking counties and the lawyers who help them with civil court cases are bracing for the impact in the likely event that Southeastern Ohio Legal Services local office closes. The nonprofit legal aid organization serves low-income people in 30 counties covering much of the impoverished Appalachian Ohio region. [...]
Helenka Marculewicz, executive director of the Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project, is the 2013 Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Murphy Award winner. Created by the Foundation in 1998, the award is named for Denis Murphy, a Columbus lawyer and founding member of the Foundation who was an advocate of strong funding for civil legal aid. Murphy [...]
An office that provides free legal aid to low-income victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and other crimes committed in Muskingum and surrounding counties is closing. The Southeastern Ohio Legal Services Zanesville office has given legal representation to more than 300 people this year, according to Managing Attorney David Little. The office also provides advice [...]
The Free Medical Clinic and the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland are two of 20 area nonprofits chosen by readers of the Northeast Ohio Media Group to receive money from its Good News Giving holiday charity drive. The 20 agencies, as well as 30 others, also receive free advertising in The Plain Dealer, Sun News [...]
Community Shares of Mid Ohio has announced that the group will include six new charities in 2014, including the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation. These charities will be eligible to receive donations through Community Shares' payroll contributions program, which is funded by employees in over 25 different workplaces in the region. Read the press release here.
The American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation announced today that it has awarded 36 pro bono grants totaling $320,834 to legal services organizations located in 19 different states. The unrestricted grants are funded jointly by the College and its Foundation and are awarded to legal services organizations whose activities are [...]
The board of Southeastern Ohio Legal Services (SEOLS) will vote on a plan in December that would shut down its offices in Lancaster, Marietta and Zanesville. SEOLS serves 30 counties in southeastern Ohio and has experienced a decrease in funding from roughly $7.4 million in 2008 to $4.3 million in 2013. "It is with deep [...]
Seven lawyers are now working for legal-aid organizations in Ohio to help homeless and low-income veterans with their legal problems. Called the Ohio Veteran Legal Corps, its member lawyers are two-year fellows who focus on civil issues, such as access to federal benefits and representing veterans in eviction proceedings. “A lawyer in many of these [...]
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reports that nearly 900 more people signed up to receive welfare in October, ending 20 consecutive months of caseload decline. Gene King, Director of the Ohio Poverty Law Center, weighs in on why caseloads may not have bottomed out. Read more here.
The Governmental Relations Section of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE) honored Ohio State Bar Association Assistant Executive Director and Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation board member William K. Weisenberg with its first-ever Governmental Relations Section Award for outstanding service. In recognizing Weisenberg's achievements, the NABE award committee noted that he has been a diligent [...]
