Tennessee Bar Foundation announces Nashville attorney John Murphy as new executive director https://lnkd.in/eyyF5amT
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Check out yet another great interview with our very own Jason Hoge, Supervising Attorney of LawNY's Re-Entry Unit! "'The people who are actually eligible for having their record sealed, almost half of those people live in upstate New York,' said Jason Hoge, supervising attorney in the LawNY reentry program. 'More than half the state where half the help is needed has almost no services whatsoever to help those people.' Since 2017, more than 3,800 people have had criminal records sealed in New York. Currently, the LawNY pro bono reentry program is only in Monroe and Tompkins counties, but they eventually hope to expand to 12 additional counties. And this November, the Clean Slate Act will go into effect, automatically sealing most misdemeanors after three years and some felonies after eight years." Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eCj-M8bq #nonprofitorganization #CivilLegalAid #JusticeForAll #justiceinvolved
Upstate legal services group looks to expand to help with record sealing
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President and Founder @ The Legal Accountability Project / Attorney, Advocate & Former Law Clerk / Above the Law Contributor
Thanks to a generous $20,000 donation from a law firm, The Legal Accountability Project recently celebrated our biggest fundraising week! 🎉🥳 LAP's donors are law firm partners and associates, government attorneys, law students, law clerks, judges, law firms, small businesses, and foundations - basically, everyone! Our supporters recognize the issues LAP tackles affect everyone, whether you clerked or not: A better judiciary creates a better society. LAP views law firms as important partners in our efforts to improve and diversify the #clerkship system, #judiciary, and #legalprofession. Our website now includes a Supporters page, which will grow over the next few weeks. LAP hopes more law firms will soon join our efforts. Will you help us help more clerks by making a tax-deductible contribution today, and also encourage your law firm to donate? Through our collaboration with MatchNice, you can view the power of your gift. Your support will help us bring our #transparency, #diversityequityinclusion, and #accountability work to more law students, #lawschools, and #courts this year. LAP can do more if we raise more. LAP still encounters too much fear of angering the #judiciary - even though we have no evidence judges oppose our #transparency work and substantial evidence they support it! Here's why law firms should join our efforts: ⚖️ If you're afraid of an unaccountable judiciary, work with LAP to fix it! Supporting our critical work is the best way to do this. 🏛Powerful law firms are well-positioned to be leaders in this effort toward transparency and #judicialaccountability. Once a few firms step forward to support change, we'll force desperately-needed change at #lawschools and to #judiciary policies in both the federal and state courts. ⚖️ If you're afraid of the #judiciary, as a powerful law firm partner, imagine how your new associates felt, in their first legal job, confronted with an enormous power disparity between judge and clerk and the knowledge that the judge has substantial power over their career. Help them, and the next generation of attorneys, by supporting LAP. 🏛If you're worried about how judges will respond if your firm publicly supports LAP, you're proving our point about the lack of #accountability in the judiciary! Support our work and help us change that. LAP advocates for state and federal legislative and policy changes to ensure a fair, unbiased, and accountable #judiciary. We hope that more #lawfirms (and individual partners and associates) will soon join our efforts. It's on all of us to improve the #clerkship system, #judiciary, and #legalprofession.
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How we talk about evictions matters. Learn more:
Out today! Catch the latest episode of Talk Justice and hear experts discuss a new report on the causes and consequences of eviction in Montana, as well as the impact of eviction on children. LSC President Ronald Flagg hosts the conversation with guests Bill Hooks, director of advocacy at Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA), Daniel Webster, housing attorney at MLSA, and Ransom Wydner, vice president of Pro Bono and Social Impact at SixFifty and a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council.
Causes and Consequences of Eviction - Legal Talk Network
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Great to see Reynolds Frizzell LLP partner Michael K. Oldham supporting the Texas Bar Foundation. Check out the post below to learn more about what Mike and the committee have been up to over the past year. #houstonlawyer #lawfirmlife #texasbar
Reynolds Frizzell LLP partner Michael K. Oldham has served as a Nominating Chair for the Texas Bar Foundation since 2022. This year, Mike is pleased to serve alongside outstanding co-chairs Gregg Costa, Diana Perez Gomez, Tina Nguyen, and Kelly Sandill. Recently, the nominating committee met to begin the process of selecting a new group of fellows. Over the past year, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded over $1.5m in grants to 100 deserving organizations related to legal aid, victim legal services, and the administration of justice. We are proud Mike has chosen to devote his efforts to this great organization and excited to see what they accomplish in the year ahead. https://lnkd.in/gqgfZbKC | #texasbarfoundation #texasbar #houstonlawyer
Texas Bar Foundation Awards Over $1.5M In Grants | Reynolds Frizzell LLP
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Across the legal landscape and particularly in public interest law, it's critical to understand how to best connect with clients whose experiences differ from your own. In observance of Veteran's Day, revisit 2022 Fellow Zachary R.M. Outzen's five tips for working with veteran clients.
Tips for working with Veteran Clients
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Day two of the International Access to Justice Forum (11-13 October 2023, California) includes 11 panels. If you haven't already you can register online for access to recordings of selected events: https://zurl.co/ncCP Highlights include: 👉Accessing Legal Information This panel centers on lay access to legal information. Presentations will offer new findings on the public’s use of search engines to access legal information, the potential for community leaders to serve as information providers, and the provision of information as a justice intervention. This session will be moderated by Suzie Forell (Health Justice Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia). Panel experts are: - Nora Al Haider (Stanford Legal Design Lab, Stanford, CA, USA) - Les Jacobs (Ontario Tech University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - Katia Lallo and Esset Kahsay (Moonee Valley Legal Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) 👉Building the Evidence Base This panel is focused on enhancing the evidence base to inform justice policy. From US state court data to national legal needs assessments to cross-national measures of legal aid, these presentations will highlight the need for evidence to guide court practice, national policy, and global development initiatives. The panel is being moderated by Alyx Mark (American Bar Foundation and Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA). Panel experts are: - Lester Bird (Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C., USA) - Paul Pretitore (World Bank, Vienna, Austria) - Hugh McDonald (Victoria Law Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) 👉The New Judging: Adapting to New Court Users The traditional vision of the adversarial system, with experienced attorneys on each side presenting their evidence at trial, is seldom the case in many courts. This panel discussion will address how the work of judging must change in response to this reality to improve the opportunity for justice. This session will be moderated by Nigel Balmer from Victoria Law Foundation and involve the following participants; - Bonnie Rose Hough (National Self-Represented Litigation Network, Sausalito, CA, USA) - Justice Laurie D. Zelon, Ret. (Judicate West, Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Judge Mark. A. Juhas (Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA, USA) Pictured: VLF's Lynne Haultain, Nigel Balmer, and Hugh McDonald with conference organiser UCI's Emily Taylor Poppe in California for day one.
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The Law Offices of Nick Spradlin, PLLC. Corporate Law Offices in Florida, Texas, New York and Washington DC (DC Office limited to matters and proceedings before federal courts and agencies)
Nonprofit Cemetery? Yes - 501(c)(13) Nonprofit Organization Not the sexiest business organization but one of the most necessary. Here are the key characteristics of a Nonprofit 501(c)(13) cemetery or crematorium organization: *Nonprofit Status: The organization must be a nonprofit, meaning it does not distribute profits to shareholders or owners. *Specific Purpose: Its primary purpose must be to operate a cemetery or crematorium. This can include activities like burial services, maintenance of cemetery grounds, and related services. *Membership or Public Benefit: The cemetery company may be owned and operated exclusively for the benefit of its members, or it may be open to the public but operated on a not-for-profit basis. *Tax Exemptions: Like other 501(c) organizations, 501(c)(13) entities are exempt from federal income taxes. However, they might still be liable for other taxes, like payroll taxes. *Regulations and Compliance: To maintain their tax-exempt status, these organizations must comply with specific regulations, such as limits on lobbying and political activities and requirements regarding their financial operations and reporting. *Donations: Contributions to 501(c)(13) organizations are typically tax-deductible for the donors, under certain conditions. It's important for organizations that believe they qualify for this status to follow the specific guidelines provided by the IRS, including the application process for recognition of their tax-exempt status. Nick Spradlin, Esq. Attorney & Counselor at Law. 23 Years of Nonprofit Legal Experience Offices: FL TX NY Washington DC (DC = Federal services only) If you would like more information about this post or if you want to discuss your legal matter with an attorney at the Law Offices of Nick Spradlin, PLLC, please contact me at [email protected] or at (877) 845-0621. Don’t forget to check out and like us on FaceBook and Linkdn. We have hundreds of posts concerning a variety of business and legal topics. I look forward to answering any questions that you might have. Visit us at www.NickSpradlin.com and feel free to use the CHAT to discuss any trademark or business issue that you desire. The information provided is not intended as legal advice. Legal advice is case specific and is not provided by this post. Transmission of this information is not intended to create, and receipt does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. No one should act upon any information in this post without careful consideration for your specific fact situation, without careful analysis, and without seeking professional advice where appropriate. The information contained in this post is provided only as general information, which may or may not reflect the most current legal developments. #501c13 #cemetery #crematorium
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On February 27, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. MT, IAALS and The Chicago Bar Foundation will examine the widespread access to justice crisis—which extends beyond low-income individuals to heavily impact the middle class and small businesses—and showcase how the newly launched Above the Line Network can bridge the gap for affordable legal services. The crisis in access to justice extends far beyond low-income people, impacting people well into the middle class as well as small businesses that are the anchors of communities throughout the country. While most organized access to justice efforts rightly focus on low-income people who are especially vulnerable, we can never achieve our nation’s ideal of equal justice for all when middle-class people—who make up more than 50% of the nation’s population—`and small businesses struggle to find quality, affordable legal services. Greater education and advocacy for the underserved middle class has the potential for heightening the issues of access to justice as a broad societal crisis and driving an increase in innovation and funding in support of closing the access to justice gap for all. There are some promising programs and models tackling this problem around the United States, Canada, and beyond, and the new Above the Line Network (ATLN) will bring them together to help them grow, thrive, and replicate, and foster advocacy for the middle class in the larger access to justice circles. This webinar is the first in a two-part project launch series and will focus on understanding the breadth of the access to justice crises, introducing the newly launched Above the Line Network, and hearing from experts in the field on how the legal profession can come together through ATLN to increase access to affordable legal help to the middle class. This webinar will feature Jessica Bednarz (Director of Legal Services and the Profession, IAALS), Roya Samarghandi (Associate Director of Advocacy, Innovation, & Training, The Chicago Bar Foundation), Kari Burns (Chief Strategy Officer, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association), Erin Monahan (Project Manager, Access Pro Bono Society of BC), and Hon. Adam Espinosa (Judge, Denver District Court). Registration link: https://lnkd.in/enQWjmJj
Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services: Unveiling the Above the Line Network
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Congratulations to our lawyers who have been recommended by their peers in the newly published The Best Lawyers UK 2025 guide: David Greene; Linky Trott; Rachel Harrap; Simon Miles; Christopher Berry and David Goepel. https://lnkd.in/gPeKCXBj #classaction #employmentlaw #intellectualpropertylaw #restructuringandinsolvencylaw #charitieslaw
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Read our founder's interview in Attorney at Law Magazine! AALM: "Your involvement in organizations like Compass and the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task force reflects your commitment to community engagement. How do these activities align with your vision for the role of a legal professional in society?" Craig Goldenfarb: "As an attorney, we hold a position of authority in society. Leadership is about setting an example for others. My involvement in community organizations that support those who are in need, reflects my commitment to helping to “even the playing field” in life, for everyone in our community." https://lnkd.in/ejesGXNt
Craig Goldenfarb: Community Champion
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