During this 50th anniversary year of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision establishing the right to counsel for the indigent in criminal trial matters, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille is calling on lawyers to support the Commonwealth’s civil legal aid programs by providing pro

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille has presented a final update on how the judiciary has addressed recommendations to bolster the state’s juvenile justice system after failures in Luzerne County led to the federal prosecution of two judges. The chief justice’s report outlines a

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

Community Legal Services of Phialdelphia has announced that eight former Commissioners of the Social Security Administration (SSA) have joined The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), in responding to a series recently aired on This American Life, All Things Considered, and National

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan has allocated more than $47 million throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to help local communities to recover from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in the summer of 2011. These grants, part of $514 million allocated among

Nominations for the 2013 Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Awards, presented by the PBA Legal Service to the Public Committee, are due to the Pro Bono Office by April 12, 2013. ​Nominations are sought for Pro Bono Awards from around the state, as well as for the Judges Award and the Civil Legal

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN) honored the ten recipients of the 2013 Excellence Awards at its annual awards banquet on Wednesday evening, March 20, 2013 at the Harrisburg Hilton. Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Yvette R. Long, a disability and

The American Bar Association’s Access to Justice Commission Expansion Project has announced the award of five grants to promote the creation of new Access to Justice Commissions in states where they do not exist. The grants were made possible by funding from the Public Welfare Foundation and the