On November 18, 2009, the Social Security Administration held its fifth public hearing on Compassionate Allowances. During the hearing, testimony was presented from some of the nation's leading experts on schizophrenia about possible methods of identifying and implementing Compassionate Allowances

LexisNexis conducted a webinar on search engine marketing (SEM) for Pro Bono Net members on Nov. 4. A team from LexisNexis has been assisting Pro Bono Net with search engine optimization for LawHelp.org and its associated sites including PALawHELP.org, to help increase the website’s visibility in

Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Mary Schapiro today announced that President Barack Obama has established by Executive Order an interagency Financial

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 on

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