Diane Drain
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Diane is honored by Legal Services Corp – Pro Bono Service Award for establishing the Self Help Center at the Arizona Bankruptcy Court. The LSC is an independent nonprofit established by Congress in 1974 to provide financial support for civil legal aid to low-income Americans. Bankruptcy Court Self-Service Center.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
A Hungarian law firm is partnering with a Los Angeles legal tech company and a legal industry influencer to create an international database of pro bono attorneys willing to represent Ukrainian refugees in need of immigration or asylum aid, and they are looking for more attorneys to sign up.
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Attorney at Work
MAY 20, 2022
Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. In legal services, specialization has been spurred by rapid change. Better outcomes.
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
This year, a number of officials and community advocates made arguments based on public safety and criminal justice concerns and initiatives that included addressing discovery burdens within New York’s court system, expanding neighborhood surveillance and investing in legal representation for immigrants in the state.
LegalTalkNetwork
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
On a related note, we also caught up with the American Bar Association’s Marty Balough who brought along CNN’s Joey Jackson and Sidley Austin ’s John Levi as well as concert performers Robert Sims and Nancy Hays to talk about their support of the Legal Services Corporation and the type of work it funds. .
LawSites
MARCH 9, 2023
Chas is an outspoken advocate of transformation in the legal industry, inspiring increased access to legal services through technology and new business models. I specifically remember Reinvent Law and the impact it had on the profession and my own view of legal services.
Open Law Lab
JANUARY 8, 2021
One interesting parallel study comes from Ingrid Eagly, a UCLA law professor, who wrote a 2015 law review article on Remote Adjudication in Immigration. She explicitly studied differences in immigration hearings that were conducted over televideo versus in-person. Civil litigants are not in detention like immigrants facing removal.
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