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      	State Justice Communities: Where Do We Go From Here? For the last 10 years, the civil legal aid community and its supporters have been heavily engaged in both the process and substance of developing a new national vision of how legal assistance for poor people will be delivered in this country. As always within the equal justice community, this endeavor has spun off a number of catch phrases and acronyms: CISS (Comprehensive, Integrated Statewide Systems), State Planning, �stakeholders�, State Justice Communities, SPAN (State Planning Assistance Network), DSPB (Designated State Planning Body), Access to Justice Commissions and, of course, �reconfiguration�. This document discusses the history and the future of State Justice Communities [ 02/03/05  |  more info ]
      	State Justice Communities: Where Do We Go From Here? Don Saunders article from the Winter 2004-2005 issue of Cornerstone Magazine is an important resource in our ongoing discussion of state justice communities. [ 01/10/05  |  more info ]
      	Appendix A Appendix with graphic representation of data from all respondents to the fall 2006 Recruitment and Retention Committee Survey [ more info ]
      	Appendix B Appendix of a summary of the comments from respondents to the fall 2006 Recruitment and Retention Committee Survey [ more info ]
      	What Can and Cannot Be Done -- Representation of Clients by LSC-Funded Programs Updated August, 2001. The LSC restrictions imposed by the FY96 appropriations legislation, modified slightly by the FY98 appropriations legislation, and incorporated in the FY99 and subsequent appropriations legislation, left legal services programs and their staff with less capacity to effectively represent low-income persons in the courts and before other forums that affect their rights and responsibilities. However, there continue to be many critically important representational activities that can still be done by LSC-funded entities, and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Velazquez v. LSC restored recipients' ability to more fully represent individual clients in welfare cases. This memo outlines in detail what programs can and cannot do under the restrictions. [ 08/10/01  |  more info ]
      	Washington State Foreclosure Project Washington State Bar Association creates new foreclosure defense project. [ more info ]
      	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) [ 09/01/03  |  more info ]
      	Annual Conference Takes a Look Back, a Look Ahead for Civil Legal Aid Don Saunders article from the Winter 2003-2004 issue of Cornerstone magazine sumarizing and introducing the Look Back, Look Ahead feature. [ 01/01/04  |  more info ]