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Upstream Advocacy: Addressing Cancer Survivors’ Employment Problems Through Medical-Legal Partnerships

Barbara Hoffman
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP)
February 10, 2016
This article reviews the cultural changes that affect cancer survivors at work, explains how their legal needs can impact their quality of life, and proposes that medical-legal partnerships are an ideal model to provide legal resources to underserved survivors to help them avoid and address negative employment consequences.

San Mateo County Eviction Report 2016

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
December 31, 2016
This report is an analysis of 3,145 eviction cases handled by the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto over a three-year period. The data provides the first attempt to evaluate eviction activity in San Mateo County on a wide scale.

Access to Justice:Ensuring Counsel for Immigrants Facing Deportation in the D.C. Metropolitan Area

Maggie Corser
The Center for Popular Democracy
March 1, 2017
This report analyzes Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review data. It serves to illustrate the difficulties that immigrants face in deportation court proceedings, and calls to action elected officials and service providers to establish a publicly funded universal representation program for immigrants facing detention and deportation.

Taking Stock of the Civil Legal Aid Movement in 2015: the Year the Pieces Came Together to Increase Access to Justice in the United States

David Udell
National Center for Access to Justice
December 31, 2015
This document outlines the civil legal aid reform initiatives that occurred in the United States in 2015, and projects the movement's course in 2016.

How Can Legal Services Better Meet the Needs of Low-Income LGBT Seniors?

Denny Chan, Vanessa Barrington
Justice in Aging
June 1, 2016
Justice in Aging published this special report to help raise awareness of the additional legal needs LGBT seniors may face that are layered on top of the more common needs of older adults. The organization proposes that because low-income LGBT older adults have lived with decades of discrimination that have led to higher rates of poverty, this group of older Americans has an even greater need for legal services to defend their rights and ensure they have access to the income supports, health care, and housing they need.

Documenting the Justice Gap in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN), Pennsylvania IOLTA Board (PAIOLTA)
June 1, 2017
This report from the PA IOLTA Board and the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN) documents the unmet need for civil legal aid in Pennsylvania in 2017. It was compiled in response to a recommendation of the Pennsylvania General Assembly that the IOLTA Board, working through PLAN, should collect data from the legal services programs on clients rejected for services to determine the actual unmet need for civil legal aid in Pennsylvania in order to better inform funding decisions.

LegalAidResearch.org

Research & Evidence for Civil Legal Aid

Upstream Advocacy: Addressing Cancer Survivors’ Employment Problems Through Medical-Legal Partnerships

San Mateo County Eviction Report 2016

Access to Justice:Ensuring Counsel for Immigrants Facing Deportation in the D.C. Metropolitan Area

Taking Stock of the Civil Legal Aid Movement in 2015: the Year the Pieces Came Together to Increase Access to Justice in the United States

How Can Legal Services Better Meet the Needs of Low-Income LGBT Seniors?

Documenting the Justice Gap in Pennsylvania

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