NLADA: Civil Legal Services

News From the Field

06/23: A Test for Equal Justice

06/22: Helping Lawyers Help the Poor

03/14: Unshackling Legal Aid

02/27: Legal Aid Offices Seek Increase In State Support

02/27: Money is Short but Demand by Poor for Legal Services Increases

02/24: Revenue Drying up for State Legal Aid

02/24: Legal Aid Funding Faces Crisis

02/05: Deluge Is Holding Up Benefits to Unemployed

01/19: Interest Rate Drop Has Dire Results for Legal Aid

12/04: Senior citizens can lose life savings via power of attorney [MI]

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NLADA's Division of Civil Legal Services supports a wide array of legal services program providers, pro bono attorneys, law schools, bar associations and other organizations and individuals playing a role in ensuring that low-income Americans have access to effective representation in civil matters.

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

NLADA Now Accepting Session Proposals for the 2009 Annual Conference

2009 Exemplar Dinner To Honor Michael Holston. Thanks To Our Sponsors!

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

House Passes Mortgage Reform Bill Including $35 Million for Legal Aid

NLADA and the Robert J. Kutak Foundation Name 2009 Winners of Esteemed Kutak-Dodds Prizes

April 14, 2009

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

View NLADA's Issues for the New Administration

January 21, 2009

NLADA's Don Saunders Featured in Two NPR Stories in Two Weeks

December 02, 2008

NLADA Joins with ABA, LSC and Pro Bono Net to Create the National Disaster Legal Aid Web Site

Now Available: Individual Articles from the Clearinghouse Review

NLADA Adopts and Releases “Statement of Vision and the Ten Core Values For the National Civil Legal Aid System”

NLADA Partnering with ACS to Promote ACS ResearchLink

NEW NLADA Update: June 30, 2009 (For Subscribers Only). In this issue read about: Senate Appropriations Committee Provides $400 Million for Legal Services Corporation for FY 2010; Removes Restrictions on Non-LSC Funds; Vice President Biden Names Lynn Rosenthal as the First Ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women; Farewell to Jane Ribadeneyra, NLADA Director of Members Services; The Passing of Luke Cole; and Equal Justice Works Continues Webinar Series on Student Loan Debt Relief

Hearing on Legal Services/Justice Gap Postponed

NLADA Publishes Report "It's the Salaries, Stupid! . . . and Much More: The Developing National Crisis in the Delivery of Legal Aid"

November 07, 2007

NLADA’S Director of Civil Legal Services, Don Saunders, Honored for His Contributions to Legal Aid by California Rural Legal Services

October 18, 2007

Equal Justice Works and Newsweek.com Launch: The E-Guide to Public Service at America's Law Schools

Place an Order for the Directory of Legal Aid & Defender Offices and Resources, 2007-2008