A lawsuit settled in Pennsylvania by the Education Law Center-PA and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) ensures the continued enrollment of homeless children in school and significantly revises state polices to better protect the rights of homeless students. As part of the

Story from the Maryland Legal Aid Newsroom discussing the action of the the Maryland legislature approving a bill to increase the surcharge on civil court filing fees to address the funding crisis caused by historically low interest rates on IOLTA.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights and union leaders, introduced the Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retaliation (POWER) Act on Capitol Hill on April 14, 2010. Crafted in response to reports across the country of employers using

Article on Philly.com discussing the national class action lawsuit, filed by Outten & Golden L.L.P. in New York with co-counsel by Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, against the U.S. Census Bureau alleging systemic employment discriminaton in the hiring of employees to work on the 2010 census

The Center for Access to Justice & Technology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law will be hosting its monthly A2J Author Online Intake Meeting on April 15, 2010 at 12:00 pm Eastern. Each month a step in the online intake planning process will be covered and questions will be taken from the attendees

Community Legal Services of Philadelphia is co-counseling a class action along with lead counsel Outten & Golden, LLP of New York, against the United States Census Bureau, alleging that thousands of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have been rejected for jobs by the Census Bureau

The March 2010 isssue of Health Law PA News , the free bi-monthly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, is now available on PALawHELP.org .

The Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project will be offering a special two-part series (90 min each) about GIS mapping on April 16 and April 23, 2010. The workshops will take place from 1:00 pm -2:30 pm Eastern on each date. These workshops will provide step-by-step instructions about