The 2009 Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant (TIG) Conference will be held in conjunction with the Management Information Exchange (MIE) National Conference for Legal Services Administrators, on January 12-15, 2010 at the Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown, in Austin Texas.

Editorial from the Washington Post urging conferees reconciling House and Senate bills to increase funding to the Legal Services Corporation and end Congressional restrictions that tie the hands of civil legal programs that help the poor.

The National Employment Law Project has developed a new fact sheet entitled Questions & Answers About Benefit Extensions under H.R. 3548, the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 . This sheet attempts to explain the unemployment compensation extension that was signed into law

Harvard Law School has announced the creation of the Holmes Public Service Fellowships , which will fund one year of public service work for approximately 12 graduating students during 2010-2011. The fellowships will pay up to $35,000 to support a year of post-graduate legal work at a non-profit or

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced that the online Retirement Estimator, available at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator , now can provide immediate and personalized benefit estimates to people who have enrolled in Medicare but have not yet filed for Social Security

From: Public News Service Press Play (►) for Audio Report A new study of hospital records by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that uninsured children were 60 percent more likely to die after being admitted to the nation's hospitals than were children with health care insurance. The

The Legal Services Corporation has awarded $3.5 million in technology grants to LSC-funded programs, including a grant to develop a national website for veterans, military personnel and families who seek help for their civil legal problems, LSC President Helaine M. Barnett announced on November 10.

Adobe Systems, Inc. will be holding a series of free eSeminars on the use of the current version of Adobe Acrobat beginning on November 13 and extending into February 2010. During the eSeminars, Adobe Acrobat Experts Rick Borstein and Mark Middleton will provide live demonstrations of the top new