On May 27, 2010 the U.S. Justice Department’s Laurence Tribe will give the keynote address at Community Legal Services’ Breakfast of Champions , which will be held at 8:00 a.m. at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel . The annual event will be attended by nearly 200 guests, including attorneys, public

The Pennsylvania Prison Society is presenting How Pennsylvania’s Drug Policies Affect YOU , a facilitated panel and forum to discuss drug policy and how it affects you, your family and your neighborhood, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in Harrisburg. The presentation will take place at Stocks on Second

From Public News Service Press Play (>) for Audio Report President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday criticized Arizona's law that makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime. But a growing number of cities around the country are taking a different approach: They are

Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed an executive order that begins to implement many of the key elements of the federal health care reform act signed recently by President Obama. The Governor said the most immediate task is the creation of a new insurance program to cover adults who have been

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) will today (May 20, 2010) release legislative text of the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act , legislation to provide critical tax cuts and support for American workers

Article from the Lancaster Online/Lancaster New Era profiling attorney Shawnee Strasko Soto-Ortiz of MidPenn Legal Services , who was recently hired in a new position funded by donations from the Lancaster Bar Association Foundation and other local attorneys, for the sole purpose of handling custody

TAA Amendments Have Yielded Significant Jump in Petitions and Certifications for Retraining & Health Benefits Following Trade-Related Layoffs One year after a significant expansion of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, today the National

The National Senior Citizens Law Center will be presenting a webinar entitled, Claiming and Collecting Attorneys Fees: Settlement Negotiations, Prevailing Party Status, and Rates , on June 8, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Eastern. This advanced training will address strategies for settlement