Volunteer Legal Services Project handles about 1,260 cases per year. However, that only serves about 25 percent of the clients seeking civil legal services in the Rochester area. How do we increase pro bono resources? A panel consisting of ...

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A rule change authorizing out-of-state attorneys employed as in-house counsel in New York to provide free legal services to underserved communities goes into effect this week. Announced Monday by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, the measure is the latest in a ...

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When Ursula M. Anderson, a retired doctor living in Cattaraugus County, was scammed by a roofing contractor three years ago, she did not know where to turn. She had gotten the loan from a federally funded government program that supplied ...

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New York state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman will be conducting his annual hearings on civil legal services beginning Sept. 17 in Albany when he will hear a panel in the Third Department. He will conduct one hearing in each of ...

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Low-interest rates and lingering effects of the economic downturn continue to impact the Interest on Lawyer Account funding for civil legal services programs in New York. Awards for 2012 were fairly consistent with those of the previous year, according to ...

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Nonlawyers could soon be helping the New York legal community in its efforts to try to meet civil legal service needs. Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman told a panel in Washington, D.C., last week that a committee has been formed in ...

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Cooperation is key among the many recommendations of a special task force to best increase pro bono involvement by all lawyers to help meet the nation’s civil legal services needs. “This is not something that any one segment of the ...

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The thing Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman finds most surprising about the testimony he has heard in a series of hearings on civil legal services is the depth of the need. He also said the fact that those in need are ...

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When Cheri Caiella’s son returned from serving in the military, he looked like the same person who had left, but it quickly became obvious to her that he had greatly changed. She said he suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder ...

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The Oversight Board for Judiciary Legal Services in New York recently announced $25 million in awards in 60 different programs.   Among Fourth Department recipients for the 2010-13 period are:   • Empire Justice Center: $604,757;   • Erie County ...

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It’s a done deal. What were announced last week as proposed cuts to the national organization funding civil legal services are now law. And the news does not get any better looking into the near future. Providers, who rely on ...

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Judges feel their position as a neutral arbiter may be compromised when litigants appear before them without legal representation That is one of the challenges the judiciary faces because of a lack of funding for civil legal services for the state’s poor. A panel of three judges ...

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