http://www.lsc.gov Legal Services Corporation Announcements Copyright 2006 Legal Services Corporation Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:13:24 -0400 Super Simple RSS tuckera@lsc.gov http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R25.php Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court are scheduled to address the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) during the Board's meeting in Milwaukee, July 29-31. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:12:50 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R24.php The Senate Appropriations Committee on July 22 approved $430 million in Fiscal Year 2011 funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). Of that amount, $401.7 million would provide grants for the delivery of civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:28:46 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R22.php The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies approved a $430 million Fiscal Year 2011 budget for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) today. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:08:59 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R21.php The Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) today announced the selection of search consultants Ellen Brown and Dale Jones of Heidrick & Struggles to handle the Corporation's recruitment of a President. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:57:08 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R19.php The Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) today approved creation of an independent task force to review and make recommendations to the Board regarding LSC's fiscal oversight responsibilities and how LSC conducts fiscal oversight of its grantees. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:57:47 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R18.php The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will implement recommendations of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to improve internal controls over grant awards, LSC President Victor M. Fortuno said today. "The stewardship of taxpayer dollars is one of our most important responsibilities," President Fortuno said. "We accept all GAO recommendations and will closely work with the GAO and the Congress to enhance oversight of grant awards and the performance of the independent nonprofit programs that receive LSC funding." Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:07:09 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R17.php The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies approved a $440 million Fiscal Year 2011 budget for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) on June 29. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:54:52 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R16.php President Obama has announced his final two appointees for the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). They are Harry Korrell, a partner in a Seattle law firm, and the Rev. Joseph Pius Pietrzyk of Zanesville, Ohio. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:34:29 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R15.php Edna Fairbanks-Williams, appointed to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation by President Clinton, died in a car crash May 10 in Castleton, Vermont. She was 77. Thu, 13 May 2010 16:33:46 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R14.php Statement of John G. Levi, Chairman, LSC Board of Directors Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:09:51 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R12.php John G. Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation's Board of Directors, testified before a House Judiciary Subcommittee today in support of an authorized annual funding level of $750 million "because it will significantly strengthen our ability to provide legal aid to the poor." Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:24:12 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R10.php Six presidential appointees to the Legal Services Corporation's Board of Directors were sworn in to office this morning and at their inaugural Board meeting elected John G. Levi, a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin, as Board chairman and Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, as vice chair. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:42:39 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R8.php Six presidential nominees were confirmed by the U.S. Senate today to serve on the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:44:15 -0400 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R7.php The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today approved the nominations of three White House appointees to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:43 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R6.php Tax-filing season is in full swing and a free website, developed with funding from the Legal Services Corporation, permits low-income workers to apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:22:15 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R5.php New York University School of Law and the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) are pleased to announce the selection of Renee Hatcher as the first Helaine Barnett Summer Fellow at the Corporation's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:33:52 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R4.php The Legal Services Corporation and the Justice Department are partners in "our country's ongoing pursuit of justice," Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., said today in a keynote address at LSC's Black History Month celebration. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:35:00 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R3.php Requests by low-income Americans for help with foreclosure and unemployment problems are increasing, officials at the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing today on LSC's budget request for Fiscal Year 2011. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:53:09 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R2.php A web-based program to help low-income Americans prepare legal documents has a new name -- LawHelp Interactive -- and improved software to allow easier creation of court forms and legal documents. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:52:32 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/pdfs/proposed_revisions_to_accounting_guide_for_lsc_recipients.pdf LSC is seeking comments on proposed revisions to its Accounting Guide for LSC Recipients, which sets forth accounting, financial management and reporting guidelines for LSC grantees. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:52:22 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2010_T261_R1.php The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked Congress to provide $516.5 million in Fiscal Year 2011 funding, with more than 95 percent of the budget request going to fund 136 nonprofit legal aid programs across the nation that provide civil legal assistance to the nation's poor. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:53:50 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2009_T248_R36.php The Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has named Victor M. Fortuno to be Interim President of LSC effective January 1, 2010 to succeed Helaine M. Barnett, who is stepping down on December 31, 2009, after serving for six years as LSC President, the longest serving President in LSC's history. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:54:48 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2009_T248_R27.php Nearly a million poor people who seek help for civil legal problems, such as foreclosures and domestic violence, will be turned away this year by the nation's largest nonprofit legal aid network because of insufficient resources, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) projects in a report released Sept. 30. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:54:56 -0400 http://bit.ly/6BuB8c President Obama announced on Dec. 17 the names of three more people that he intends to nominate to LSC's Board of Directors. http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2009_T248_R32.php A federal appeals court has upheld 1996 restrictions on the activities of programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), including activities paid for by non-LSC funds. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:22:41 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2009_T248_R31.php The Legal Services Corporation has awarded $3.5 million in technology grants to LSC-funded programs, including a grant to develop a national website for veterans, military personnel and families who seek help for their civil legal problems, LSC President Helaine M. Barnett announced today. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:15:15 -0500 http://www.lsc.gov/press/pressrelease_detail_2009_T248_R29.php State, local and charitable funding for nonprofit civil legal assistance programs in New Jersey is declining sharply at a time when an increasing number of low-income individuals and families are seeking help with legal problems often exacerbated by the nation's weak economy. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:05:11 -0500