Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced that 15 healthcare providers and networks have received $17.4 million in contract awards to provide electronic medical records to the agency. These electronic medical records, which will be sent through the Nationwide Health

The New Year marked the official launch of a new design, name and logo for Pro Bono Net’s online document assembly initiative. The service, formerly known as NPADO, has been rebranded as LawHelp Interactive. As part of the larger redesign of the document assembly system interface, a new LawHelp

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress to provide $516.5 million in Fiscal Year 2011 funding, with more than 95 percent of the budget request going to fund 136 nonprofit legal aid programs across the nation that provide civil legal assistance to the nation's poor.

The Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project will be conducting a webinar entitled, Help Us Help You: TIG Collaborations for 2011, on February 4, 2010 at 2:00 pm Eastern. Attend this training, conducted by NTAP staff, to learn more about TIG collaborations, what ideas for TIGS are

Rick Borstein and Mark Middleton of Adobe Systems will be conducting a series of educational eSeminars over next few months on the use of Adobe Acrobat 9. Not all of these eSeminars are legal-specific, but many of them offer content that may be of interest. All eSeminars are FREE 1-hour long

During his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama once again reiterated his commitment to revamping this nation's broken immigration and health care systems. Below is a statement from Tyler Moran, policy director of the National Immigration Law Center:

Recognizing the challenges many older Americans are facing in today's economic climate, HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee, on behalf of the Administration on Aging, has launched a new Web site for the National Legal Resource Center (NLRC).

As part of the Administration’s ongoing housing market stabilization plan, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released updated guidance for servicers participating in the Administration’s mortgage modification program. This guidance