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NEW NLADA Update: February 4, 2010 (For Subscribers Only). President Obama's FY 2011 Budget Request Recommends Slight Increase for LSC; LSC Board Meets in DC; Operations and Regulations Committee Votes to Eliminate Attorneys' Fees Regulatory Restriction; Provisions Committee Hears Status Reports on Proposed 2010 Activities; Governance & Performance Review Committee Hears About New Board Training; Finance Committee Acts on FY 2010 Budget; Audit Committee Hears Presentation on LSC 2009 Audit; Board of Directors Meeting; News about Ross Dolloff; Calling Nominees for 2010 Kutak-Dodds Prizes; NALP's 2010 Public Interest Salary Survey Released; Save the Date for Litigation and Advocacy Directors Conference and Substantive Law Conference

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NLADA President & CEO Jo-Ann Wallace Testifies before House Judiciary Committee Briefing on Solutions to the Indigent Defense Crisis

F. William McCalpin (Bill), Champion of Legal Services, Dies

Equal Justice Society Honors Camille Holmes Wood with the Race Consciousness in the Law Award

Justice Department Official Burch Lists Anticrime Funding Priorities

2009-2010 Directory of Legal Aid & Defender Offices and Resources Coming Soon! Advance Ordering Available Now.

President Obama Announces Five Nominees to the LSC Board

Attorney General Eric Holder Addresses ACCD; Outlines DOJ'S Five Steps For Improving Indigent Defense

NLADA Launches Funding Opportunities for Legal Aid (FOLA) Group Web Site

President's Budget Recommends $435 Million for LSC and Elimination of Some Restrictions

House Passes Mortgage Reform Bill Authorizing $35 Million for Legal Aid; Appropriation of Funding Needed

Bipartisan National Right to Counsel Committee released report on Right to Counsel in the United States, "Justice Denied America’s Continuing Neglect of Our Constitutional Right to Counsel"

Information and Resources About Law Firm Deferment Programs and How NLADA Members Can Participate

NLADA Applauds Senator Harkin's Introduction of Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009

NLADA's David Carroll Testifies at U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on Quality of Indigent Defense in Michigan and Other States (Link to Video of Hearing Included)

NLADA Applauds Congress, President Obama for Passing and Signing into Law $40 million Increase in LSC Funding

View NLADA's Issues for the New Administration

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