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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 ]
      	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. [ 06/23/02  |  more info ]
      	Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons [ 06/18/02  |  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 ]
      	LSC vs. Velazquez, U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Opinion of U.S. Supreme Court in LSC vs. Velazquez [ more info ]
      	LSC Program Letter 2001-03 LSC Program Letter 2001-03 [ 06/20/01  |  more info ]
      	Jan. 2001 Comments on the Proposed LSC Regulatory Review (1611 & 1636) Submitted by the Committee on Restrictions and Regulations of the Civil Policy Group National Legal Aid & Defender Association January 10, 2001 These comments are submitted to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) by the Committee on Restrictions and Regulations, on behalf of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association�s Civil Policy Group in response to LSC�s request for public comment that were published in the Federal Register on November 24, 2000, (65 FR 70540), requesting input into a proposed review by the LSC Board of the LSC regulatory scheme. [ 01/10/01  |  more info ]
      	March 8, 2000 memo to LSC President John McKay re Issues for LSC Regulatory Reform MEMORANDUM TO: John McKay FROM: Linda Perle and Alan Houseman DATE: March 8, 2000 RE: Issues for LSC Regulatory Reform We understand that the Legal Services Corporation is considering whether to revisit issues raised by the LSC regulations, particularly with respect to the administrative burdens that compliance with those regulations imposes on recipients. This memo attempts to outline some of the regulatory issues that we believe the Corporation should consider as it embarks on any such effort, and to state our views about which issues merit significant attention. [ 03/08/00  |  more info ]
      	May 18, 2001 memo to LSC re Suggested Areas of Revision for Parts 1611 and 1626 MEMORANDUM TO: LSC Regulations Review Task Force FROM: Restrictions and Regulations Committee, NLADA Civil Policy Group DATE: May 18, 2001 RE: Suggested areas of revision for Parts 1611 and 1626 This memorandum is submitted to the LSC Regulations Review Task Force by the NLADA Civil Policy Group's Restrictions and Regulations Committee. The Committee has reviewed the current versions of Parts 1611 (Eligibility) and 1626 (Aliens) as well as the 1995 proposed revisions to Part 1611, and has identified numerous areas of both rules that we believe are in need of revision. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide the LSC Task Force with the Committee's views of those issues that should be addressed in the rulemaking process that is now underway at LSC. Because it is very early in the process, we have not generally proposed specific language to be incorporated into the revisions, other than those provisions that are included in LSC's 1995 proposed revisions to Part 1611. However, the Committee does intend to consider specific recommended revisions and we are available to work with the LSC staff to develop proposed language at an appropriate time in the future. [ 05/18/01  |  more info ]
      	Comments on the LSC Regulations Review Task Force Report In response to the September 13, 2001 notice in the Federal Register, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) Civil Policy Group, through its Committee on Restrictions and Regulations (the Committee) is pleased to submit these comments to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) regarding the Final Report of the Regulations Review Task Force (Report). [ 10/26/01  |  more info ]