The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today approved the nominations of three White House appointees to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation. The three nominees are Sharon L. Browne, a principal attorney in the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Individual Rights

The February 2010 edition of Senior Health News, a free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project is now available on PALawHELP.org.

Article from the Philadelphia Business Journal about funds raised and distributed by the Philadelphia Foundation's Basic Human Needs Fund through its Generous Philadelphia Campaign. Community Legal Services will receive $45,000 from the campaign for its mortgage foreclosure prevention programs, and

The 2008-2009 Annual Report of Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) is now available from the program and on its website. Also available on the LASP website is a list of last year's individual and law firm donors and the volunteers who worked with LASP and its clients.

Editorial from the New York Times about the hiring of Laurence Tribe, the prominent Harvard Law School professor and constitutional scholar, by Attorney General Eric Holder to lead his campaign to look at ways indigent legal services can be improved.

Pennsylvania, along with 34 other states, has reached a $12 million settlement with LifeLock Inc, an Arizona-based company accused of making confusing or misleading statements in the advertisement and promotion of its identity theft protection services. The settlement includes an $11 million

Article from timesleader.com on North Penn Legal Services' new annual campaign – the Luzerne County Campaign for Legal Aid.

Tax-filing season is in full swing and a free website, developed with funding from the Legal Services Corporation, permits low-income workers to apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The free electronic filing system, called I-CAN! E-File, was created by the Legal Aid Society of Orange