The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network is presenting the 2010 Public Benefits Conference on May 19-20, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel , 23 South Second Street, Harrsiburg, PA 17101. The conference will present workshops on a number of topics sponsored by the Public Benefits Law Group, the Disability Law

Lawyers in Philadelphia have announced the settlement of a lawsuit that will lower the cost of Medicare insurance and increase access to Medicare services and benefits for low-income senior citizens and people with disabilities in Pennsylvania. The settlement will result in new processes to enroll

KYW Newradio 1060 story on the federal lawsuit filed against the census bureau featuring comments by Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services who represents a North Philadelphia woman who wants to be a census taker again and is a lead plaintiff in the suit.

Article in the Washington Post discussing the Supreme Court's decision in Perdue v. Kenny A., where all nine members of the court decided that civil rights lawyers who achieve extraordinary results on behalf of the dispossessed are entitled to a bonus for their good work, but found that attorneys in

Editorial in the New York Times discussing the class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of applicants for U.S. Census Bureau jobs who say they were unfairly turned down for census jobs based on an opaque screening policy that relies on F.B.I. checks for any criminal histories. Sharon Dietrich

Article from the Philadelphia Business Journal discussing the $273 million in federal stimulus funding Pennsylvania has lying in wait, which can be drawn down by making changes to the state’s unemployment compensation law. Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services is quoted in the article

Story from Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania about the efforts of Attorney Allison McConnell who recently assisted an elderly client in obtaining a waiver of a $47,000 overpayment from the Railroad Retirement Board.

The 2010 Civil Litigation Conference will be held at the Duke University School of Law on May 10-11, 2010. Access, fairness, cost, and delay in civil litigation in federal court will be the focus of the Conference which is sponsored by the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. New