A webinar entitled Beyond Online Intake: Looking at Triage and Expert Systems will be offered for legal aid and pro bono program staff as part of the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project/Pro Bono Net Community Training Series on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 1:00 pm Eastern. Online

The 2014 Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) Conference will be held on January 15-17, 2014 in Jacksonville, Florida. LSC’s TIG Conference is the only national event focused exclusively on the use of technology in the legal aid community. The conference provides a unique

With only 10 days left on the House legislative calendar before the Congressional holiday recess, a group of lawmakers has issued an urgent call to reauthorize federal jobless aid for the long-term unemployed as Representative Sandy Levin (D-MI) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) announced new legislation

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network is soliciting nominations for its 2014 Excellence Awards. This year, the awards dinner will be held on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at the Harrisburg Hilton & Towers. A social hour will take place from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, immediately followed by a buffet dinner (please

With federal jobless aid for the long-term unemployed set to expire at the end of December, the White House today announced its support for reauthorizing the program through 2014. At a public forum, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, Gene Sperling, stated, “With an

The October 2013 issue of Senior Health News, a free bi-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.

In the wake of October’s harmful government shutdown, the nation now faces another critical deadline: the looming December 31st shutdown of federal unemployment insurance for more than two million long-term unemployed workers. If Congress fails to reauthorize the federally-funded Emergency

The Social Security Administration has announced that monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 63 million Americans will increase 1.5 percent in 2014. The 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 57 million Social