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January 13, 2025
North Penn Legal Services is hosting a free virtual CLE presentation for attorneys and other advocates entitled Human Trafficking Victim Advocacy on January 22, 2025 from 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Eastern. The program will be held on the Zoom platform.
January 13, 2025
The proposed rule seeks to stop companies from using a variety of contract clauses that limit fundamental freedoms, including waivers of substantive legal and constitutional rights and fine print that suppresses speech.
January 10, 2025
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that the nation’s 2025 tax season will start on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, and will feature expanded and enhanced tools to help taxpayers as a result of the agency’s historic modernization efforts. The IRS expects more than 140 million individual tax returns
January 10, 2025
The Legal Service Corporation (LSC) will be live streaming the keynote address and numerous panels throughout the 2025 Innovations in Technology Conference that is being held January 13-15, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. The streamed sessions will be available on the LSC YouTube channel at the links
January 10, 2025
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) has released the latest issue of the Positive Approaches Journal, which aims to provide the most recent research for people with mental and behavioral health challenges, intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities to
January 7, 2025
The Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice today announced the launch of the Access to Justice Prize, a year-long prize competition that aims to foster innovative solutions to address critical gaps in access to justice across the United States. The inaugural competition will focus on
January 7, 2025
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule that will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans. The CFPB’s action will ban the inclusion of medical bills on credit reports used by lenders and prohibit lenders
January 7, 2025
The National Center on Law & Elder Rights is hosting a free webinar entitled Elder Abuse Representation 101: Case and Client Management on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern. This is the first training in a three-part series designed to provide legal and elder rights

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