Cases Closed by 1997 Legal Services Corporation Recipients


					Income						Brief		Extended		Total
	Family		Housing		Maint.		Consumer		Other		Service		Service		Closed	PAI
	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	Cases
Massachusetts

South Middlesex Lgl Svcs	254	26	219	23	195	20	176	18	129	13	651	67	322	33	973	123
Merrimack Valley Lgl Svcs	277	14	616	30	845	42	66	3	228	11	1,503	74	529	26	2,032	47
Center for Lgl Advocacy	1,396	39	1,002	28	580	16	368	10	237	7	3,494	98	89	2	3,583	308
Lgl Svcs for Cape Cod	1,086	29	1,255	33	580	15	334	9	532	14	3,016	80	771	20	3,787	1,235
Mass Justice Project	1,374	16	3,410	39	2,856	33	437	5	685	8	8,600	98	162	2	8,762	414
Vol. Lawyers of Boston Bar	3,885	23	5,607	33	2,866	17	1,457	9	3,200	19	16,242	95	773	5	17,015	389

Totals for State	8,272	23	12,109	33	7,922	22	2,838	8	5,011	14	33,506	93	2,646	7	36,152	2,516

Other Cases include cases in the Education, Employment, Juvenile, Health, Individual Rights, and Miscellaneous categories.
Brief Service includes Counsel & Advice, Referrals after Assessment, Cases with Insufficient Merit, Clients Withdrawing, and Changes in Eligibility.
Extended Services includes Court Decisions, Agency Decisions, Negotiated Settlements (with and without Litigation), and Other case closures.
(For further information about case closing definitions, please refer to the LSC Case Service Report Instruction Handbook.)

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April 30, 1998 | Back to List |