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Aggressive Advocacy in Today's Program Environment
Remarks of Alan Houseman, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, at the NLADA Litigation and Advocacy Directors Conference in Snowbird, Utah, June 23, 2002.
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Aggressive Advocacy, Keynote Speech by Florence Wagman Roisman
Keynote Speech, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, Litigation and Advocacy Directors’ Conference, Snowbird, Utah, June 23, 2002. Presented by Florence Wagman Roisman, Professor of Law and Paul Beam Fellow, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.
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Gerald Torre's Address to the 2002 Substantive Law Conference
TRANSCRIPT OF GERALD TORRES’ ADDRESS TO THE
2002 SUBSTANTIVE LAW CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2002
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Racial Justice: The Role of Civil Legal Assistance
Featured in the May-June 2002 issue of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy focusing on racial justice, this article argues that the civil legal aid and state justice communities need to give greater priority and commitment to race-based advocacy. As an introduction to the issue, the article provides some specific examples--from the federal anti-discrimination laws to use to office hiring practices--of how these communities can better pursue racial justice.
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"Moving Back to Center," by Teresa Cosby
Speech by Teresa Cosby, executive director of the South Carolina Centers for Justice, at the Civil Caucus of the NLADA Annual Conference. November 14, 2002, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Address of Anthony Thompson on Prisoner Reentry Issues
Address by Anthony Thompson, Professor of Law at NYU, to the NLADA Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 14, 2002. The speech was the kick-off event for the groundbreaking joint civil-defender training track on reentry issues.
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The Best and Worst of Times for Legal Services
One of a series of columns written for publication
by ROBERT J. RHUDY and JOE SURKIEWICZ (December, 2002)
Robert J. Rhudy is executive director of the Maryland Legal Services Corp. He can be reached at rhudy@mlsc.org. Joe Surkiewicz is the director of communications at the Legal Aid Bureau. His email is jsurkiewicz@mdlab.org.
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Maryland's Legal Aid Bureau: A National Leader
One of a series of columns written for publication
by ROBERT J. RHUDY AND JOE SURKIEWICZ (January, 2003)
Robert J. Rhudy is executive director of the Maryland Legal Services Corp. He can be reached at rhudy@mlsc.org. Joe Surkiewicz is the director of communications at the Legal Aid Bureau. His email is jsurkiewicz@mdlab.org.
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"Alternative Directions" Slows the Revolving Prison Door
With more than 8,000 prisoners a year returning to their old Baltimore neighborhoods—and a national recidivism rate higher than 67 percent—doesn’t it make good public-policy sense to ensure they don’t go back to jail?
So imagine a program that helps ex-offenders with their civil legal problems, places them in drug-treatment programs and supplies a support network until they get their feet on the ground.
Sound too good to be true?
It’s not.
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Gideon at 40: The Promise Comes With a Price Tag
By Rita Fry, Public Defender of Cook County, Illinois. "Forty years have passed since the United States Supreme Court’s landmark right-to-counsel opinion in Gideon v. Wainwright . Today, states and localities aim to fulfill these obligations through state or local public defender organizations, appointed counsel, or through a contracting process . After four decades, however, it is time to assess how well our justice system has performed to meet the promise of Gideon."
(This article appeared as the “Message to Members” in NLADA’s Cornerstone, Volume 24, Number 4; Winter 2002-2003)
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ABA Gideon Hearing (November 2003 -- Seattle)
Transcript of the November 2003 NLADA Annual Conference Gideon hearing, convened by the American Bar Association, in Seattle, Washington.
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Justice Gerry Alexander Keynote Address -- 2003 Annual Conference
2003 NLADA Annual Conference, November 12, keynote address by Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander.
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Dr. Divine Prior Speech - 2003 NLADA Annual Conference
Speech
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House of Ruth offers victims of domestic violence legal help, shelter … and self-esteem
For a client who turned to the House of Ruth after her husband threatened to kill her, the most important thing she got wasn’t the legal assistance or shelter provided by the domestic violence legal clinic.
It was something more basic than that.
“My self-esteem was very low,” recalled Mary G., whose husband once shot her three times and left her to die in the woods. “I thought there was something wrong with me. The House of Ruth made me realize I was somebody and didn’t deserve this.”
Yet the legal work performed for Mary G. after she left her husband was crucial in getting her and her children’s lives back on track.
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Leaders for Justice Draft Report: A National Leadership Development Initiative for the Legal Aid Community and the Equal Justice Movement
A report of the Leaders for Justice Advisory Council that sets forth a vision and plan for developing a collaborative national leadership initiative for the equal justice community.
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Georgia Indigent Defense Symposium, Remarks of H. Scott Wallace, Director of Defender Legal Services, NLADA
What are the biggest happenings in indigent defense nationally this year? Three words:
Shelton
Principles
DNA (is that a word?).
By Shelton, I mean the May 20 decision in Alabama v. Shelton, where the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel.
By Principles, I mean the adoption by the American Bar Association of a wonderful document called the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. (I say wonderful because I co-wrote it.)
By DNA, I mean – well, you know…
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Establishing Legal Clinics in Moldova: Lessons in Volunteerism and Legal Education
A first-person account of a CEELI fellow's experience in Moldova helping to set up the country's first domestic violence legal clinics
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Reentry—the Tie That Binds Legal Aid Attorneys and Public Defenders
What does the term “reentry ” mean? Whose responsibility is it to serve these clients —civil legal aid attorneys or public defenders? Moreover, why should civil legal aid attorneys and public defenders be concerned about the hundreds of thousands of ex-offenders returning to their communities each year?
This article was first published in Clearinghouse Review, 37 Clearinghouse Rev. 328(Sept.-Oct. 2003)
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