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September 15, 2021
LSC Website Announcement
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September 14, 2021
Talk Justice, an LSC Podcast: How the Pandemic is Impacting the Opioid Crisis and People in Recovery
This episode of Talk Justice looks at the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the opioid crisis. The episode is hosted by LSC President Ronald S. Flagg and includes Brandon George, director of Indiana Addiction Issues Coalition; Dr. Mishka Terplan, medical director with Friends Research Institute and staff physician at the University of California San Francisco; and Brendan Wood, an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Legal Aid of West Virginia.
August 30, 2021
LSC Applauds Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Call for Members of the Legal Community to Address Looming Housing and Evictions Crisis
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) applauds and supports Attorney General Merrick Garland’s call for members of the legal community to help “address the looming housing and evictions crisis.”
August 24, 2021
Talk Justice, an LSC Podcast, Brings Together Business Leaders to Discuss Access-to-Justice Efforts
This episode of Talk Justice brings together business leaders to discuss access-to-justice efforts.
August 24, 2021
Talk Justice: Episode Seventeen
In the latest episode of Talk Justice, prominent leaders discuss the business community’s perspective on the importance of access to justice during the pandemic.
August 10, 2021
Talk Justice: Episode Sixteen
In this episode of Talk Justice, host Jason Tashea sits down with Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5), co-chair of the Congressional Access to Civil Legal Aid Caucus; Karen A. Lash, the former founding executive director of the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable; and Elizabeth Werner, managing attorney at Legal Aid of West Virginia to discuss what President Biden’s executive order re-establishing the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable means for access to justice.
August 10, 2021
Talk Justice, an LSC Podcast: What to Expect from the Relaunch of the DOJ’s Access-to-Justice Function and the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable
This episode of LSC's "Talk Justice” podcast looks at what to expect from President Biden’s initiative to "reinvigorate the federal government’s role in advancing access to justice," including re-establishing the Department of Justice’ Office for Access to Justice and reinvigorating the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable. Host Jason Tashea sits down with Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5), co-chair of the Congressional Access to Civil Legal Aid Caucus; Karen Lash, former official at the Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice; and Elizabeth Werner, managing attorney, Legal Aid of West Virginia.
August 02, 2021
LSC President Ronald Flagg Calls for Expanded Eviction Diversion and Right-to-Counsel Programs in Response to CDC Moratorium’s Expiration
LSC President Ronald S. Flagg called on state and local governments on August 2 to expand the use of eviction diversion and housing right-to-counsel programs to more quickly and fairly distribute already appropriated emergency rental assistance funds.
July 28, 2021
Talk Justice: Episode Fifteen
The Legal Service Corporation’s new vice president for legal affairs and general counsel Will A. Gunn discusses his new position and his legal and military experience in an episode of LSC’s “Talk Justice” podcast. LSC President Ronald S. Flagg hosts the conversation.
July 28, 2021
Former VA General Counsel Will A. Gunn Discusses New Leadership Role at LSC on the Latest Episode of “Talk Justice”
LSC's new vice president for legal affairs and general counsel Will A. Gunn discusses his new position and his legal and military experience in an episode of LSC’s “Talk Justice” podcast released today. LSC President Ronald S. Flagg hosted the conversation.