Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, has announced 25 new Compassionate Allowances conditions, including a dozen cancers, bringing the total number of conditions to 225. The Compassionate Allowances program expedites disability decisions for Americans with the most serious

Nominations are now being accepted for the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation's Louis J. Goffman Awards . The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation’s Louis J. Goffman Awards program seeks to recognize and honor an individual and an organization whose commitments to pro bono have enhanced the delivery of legal

The December 2013 edition of the Senior Health News , is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project (PHLP) . Effective January 2014, PHLP will combine Health Law PA News and Senior Health News into a single monthly publication titled Health Law PA News. The combined newsletter will

The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics will be presenting a free webinar entitled, Bed Bugs: Legal Remedies and Limitations to Eliminating a Community Health Problem , on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern. Bed bugs are a serious community health problem that affects

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network is proud to announce the recipients of its 2014 Excellence Awards. The list includes a variety of civil legal aid professionals and friends of civil legal aid across Pennsylvania who are being recognized for their efforts in support of the clients served by the

Governor Tom Corbett has signed into law ten bills that put Pennsylvania’s children first by making significant improvements to the state’s child protection laws. The new laws follow the recommendations from a November 2012 report by the Pennsylvania Task Force on Child Protection, established

The November edition of the Health Law PA News , a free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, is now available. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit their website at www.phlp.org .

Materials from two recent Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Training events, a webinar entitled What the Public Interest Lawyer Should Know about Employment Law and the 2013 PA Legal Aid Network Housing Law Training , are now available on the PLAN website .