State Labor Commissioners Join in Calling on Congress to Swiftly Renew Unemployment & COBRA Benefits The National Employment Law Project (NELP), the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Half in Ten Campaign released a report detailing the severe economic and human costs by state if key

This training, entitled What a HotDocs Developer Should Know About Microsoft Word is free to the legal aid community as part of NTAP's Community Training Series and is presented through a partnership between LSNTAP and Pro Bono Net. The training will be held on December 9, 2009 from 2:00-3:30 pm.

The National Law Journal reports that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center have announced improved loan forgiveness programs that will cover all law school loan debt for many of their graduates who go on to work in public interest law for at least

The Fall 2009 issue of Dialogue , the magazine of the American Bar Association Division for Legal Services, which presents news and topical information about the delivery of legal services to low and moderate income people, is now available on the ABA website . This issue features From the Chair

The Pennsylvania Utility Law Project’s 2009-2010 LIHEAP Advocates Manual is now available. There have been significant changes in LIHEAP this year. The updated manual should be of assistance to all advocates in representing clients. The manual may be found on-line from the Regional Housing Legal

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the National Center for State Courts, the Center-hosted Self-Represented Litigation Network , in cooperation with the Legal Services Corporation , is presenting a two-day conference entitled A Training on Public Libraries and Access to Justice

Farmworker Justice has just published the Fall 2009 issue of its semi-annual newsletter, Farmworker Justice News . Read about: Farmworker Justice's new project helping rural Latino communities mobilize to prevent HIV/AIDS; advocacy and litigation to reform the H-2A agricultural guestworker program

Consumer protection lawsuits were filed on November 23, 2009 by the Pennsylvania Attorney General against four loan modification or "mortgage rescue" businesses, along with their officers, who are accused of deceiving Pennsylvania consumers seeking help modifying their mortgage loans.