The February 2014 issue of Health Law PA News , a free monthly newsletter, is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit their website at www.phlp.org .

The number of long-term unemployed Americans without access to jobless aid hit the two million mark this week as a result of Congress' failure to reauthorize the emergency unemployment insurance program. An additional one million children in affected families have been harmed by the cutoff.

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress for $486 million for Fiscal Year 2015, the same level of funding it requested the year before in its budget request that was directed to Congress on March 4. Nearly 93 percent of the request, more than $451 million, would be devoted to basic

Thanks to generous support from the Public Welfare Foundation , the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (NCMLP) and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) announced a new fellowship designed to

The Practising Law Institute is offering a free webcast of a presentation being offered live in New York City entitled Social Security Disability 2014: From Administrative Proceedings to Federal Practice , on March 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm Eastern. This webcast in designed for attorneys (and legal

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille has been invited by the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as part of an eight-member expert workgroup, formed by the National Institute of Justice, to develop best practices and guidelines for the use of videoconferencing technology in state and

The Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board has announced changes in Rules and Regulations that will permit more credits to be earned via distance learning and will increase the annual ethics requirement. By Supreme Court Order, Pa.R.C.L.E. Rule 108 (e) has been changed to increase the amount

The January 2014 issus of Health Law PA News , a free monthly newsletter, is now available from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project. For prior editions or more information about the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, please visit www.phlp.org .