U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez has announced a proposed rule extending the protections of the Family and Medical Leave Act to all eligible employees in legal same-sex marriages regardless of where they live. The proposal would help ensure that all families will have the flexibility to deal

Social Security has published new instructions that allow the agency to process more claims in which entitlement or eligibility is affected by a same-sex relationship. These instructions come in response to last year’s Supreme Court decision in U.S. vs. Windsor, which found Section 3 of the Defense

The Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime, in collaboration with the Access to Justice Initiative and the Elder Justice Initiative, has released the first three modules of a free self-paced Online Elder Abuse Training for legal service providers. This interactive Web-based training

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

Friends of Farmworkers was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant by Impact100 Philadelphia at the conclusion of their sixth annual meeting on June 3. The organization awared a total of $328,000 in project and operating grants at that time. Friends of Farmworkers (FOF) works to improve the living and

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. (PLAN) has released a new video featuring highlights of three hearings conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired by Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf, that addressed the question, Civil Legal Representation of the Indigent: Have We Achieved Equal Access

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

Coalition Urges Creation of New Commission A report released by the Pennsylvania Civil Legal Justice Coalition on May 6, 2014 concludes that the staggering number of unrepresented low-income litigants in civil legal matters adversely impacts the quality of justice for all parties in Pennsylvania