The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) is seeking nominations for the 2011 Kutak-Dodds Prizes. The prestigious award annually honors the accomplishments of civil legal aid attorneys, public defenders, assigned counsel or public interest lawyers who, through the practice of law, are

This opinion piece from the National Law Journal by Esther F. Lardent of the Pro Bono Institute, discusses the federal funding level for legal services. It discusses the tacit assumption that lawyers, through their pro bono efforts, will pick up the slack created by any funding cuts, but stresses

The Pennsylvania Veterans Justice Partnership, led by Veterans Affairs Regional Director Michael Moreland and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery, today advanced its efforts to assist veterans who are struggling with substance abuse or mental health problems and who come into contact

Free upgrade of award-winning legal software may be downloaded for noncommercial use at www.a2jauthor.org The Center for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, in partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), has released Access to

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that nearly 100 IRS offices will be open on Saturday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, March 26, to help taxpayers. The location of participating offices is listed on IRS.gov . The IRS offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. IRS staff will be on site

The Pennsylvania Bar Associaton Legal Services to the Public Committee is accepting nominations for the 2011 Pro Bono Awards. This is the 24th year that the committee is seeking individual award nominees and the seventh year it is seeking nominees for the "Judges Award" and the "Civil Legal Aid

Unemployedworkers.org reports that discriminatory practices that bar unemployed workers from consideration for jobs are the subject of a new inquiry launched this week by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Responding to reports of what EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien called "the

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $70 million cut from the current level in Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funding on February 19, reducing grants to 136 local legal aid nonprofit programs by an average of 18 percent. The proposed $70 million cut is from the Fiscal Year 2010 funding of