The Practising Law Institute is offering a free one-hour briefing via webcast entitled How to Use Maps to Support Your Work with Low-Income Communities on March 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm Eastern. Please join Robert Hammond and Jay Ackley from Legal Services NYC as they demonstrate how user-friendly online

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress for $502.7 million for Fiscal Year 2017, more than 90% of which goes to basic field grants that fund civil legal assistance to low-income Americans in every congressional district. This is an increase of $15.8 million over last year’s budget

The January 2016 edition of Health Law PA News is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project. This is a free newsletter containing the latest news relating to Health Care law in Pennsylvania. You can subscribe to receive the PHLP eNews, which links to the Health Law PA News on the PHLP

​In response to the unique challenges that youth in Philadelphia face every day, Community Legal Services (CLS) and Philadelphia Legal Assistance (PLA) have launched the Youth Justice Project (YJP). Using a holistic and collaborative model, YJP seeks to transform the way legal services are provided

The National Consumer Law Center will be holding a free webinar entitled Recognizing and Remedying Elder Financial Abuse in Medicaid Denials on February 16, 2016 from 2:00 pm-3:30 pm Eastern. This webinar will focus on the intersection of elder financial abuse and public benefits cases, including

The 16th Annual Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) Conference, sponsored by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), will be held on January 13–15 at the Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk, 111 E. Pecan St., San Antonio, Texas. The TIG Conference is the only national event focused exclusively on the use of

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has announced the election of Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt as its president judge. Judge Leavitt succeeds Senior Judge Dan Pellegrini, whose term as president judge ended on Dec. 31, 2015. (Judge Bernard McGinley was elected interim president judge until the

On the eve of Christmas, the Public Utility Commission released the results of its annual Cold Weather Survey . The report indicates that 24,175 households in Pennsylvania will enter the winter without heat or are using an unsafe heating source. The Pennsylvania Utility Law Project (PULP) sees a