Equal Justice Works will be holding a free webinar designed for currently licensed civil legal assistance attorneys to provide details about the Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Student Loan Repayment Program (CLAAP) . The webinar will be presented on June 17, 2010 and July 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Equal Justice Works reports that a new loan repayment assistance program for civil legal aid attorneys is going to become available soon . The Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Student Loan Repayment Program (CLAAP) will repay a portion of eligible federal student loan debt for civil legal assistance

The Social Security Administration has published revised criteria in the Listing of Impairments that are used to evaluate claims involving hearing loss under Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income programs. The revisions reflect SSA'sa adjudicative experience, advances in

Efforts Are Reducing the Number of Children in Foster Care. United by the common goal of improving the lives of abused and neglected children, judges, children and youth service administrators, and state and local child welfare experts from throughout the Commonwealth today convened in Harrisburg to

The Brennan Center for Justice has recently published an analysis entitled The Impact of the Recession on the Ability of the Poor and Working Poor to Obtain Help with Pressing Civil Legal Needs . This analysis, part of the Center's Civil Justice initiative , provides nationwide evidence of the

Pennsylvania will receive $14.3 million in competitively-awarded federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to expand and enhance information systems that help improve education reported acting Education Secretary Thomas E. Gluck. Pennsylvania was one of 20 states to receive a combined

Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille said that a new Family Court in Philadelphia - a project that for years has seemed unattainable - is on its way to becoming a reality. "Rarely has there been so clear a need," said Chief Justice Castille. "You could almost literally call it a crying

The American Bar Association has posted video webcasts of two of the plenary speeches given at the Equal Justice Conference--those by Sonia Nazario, the conference keynote speaker, on Thursday and of ABA President Carolyn Lamm who spoke at the Thursday awards luncheon.