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• Foreclosures: A Crisis in Legal Representation

  By NLADA on March 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This is a review of the foreclosure crisis including the number of persons without legal representation in selected counties with high rates of foreclosure, why having a lawyer matters, the barriers to legal representation, concluding with recommendations.

• Legal Needs and Civil Justice: A Survey of Americans, Major Findings from the Comprehensive Legal Needs Study

  By NLADA on March 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Interviews by phone and in person were conducted in 1993 with more than 3,000 low- and moderate-income Americans to ask about circumstances experienced that pertain to civil justice. (Link is major findings only.)

• Economic Benefits of Civil Legal Aid

  By NLADA on March 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This two-page fact sheet lists five ways the civil legal aid also yields substantial economic benefits.

• An Analysis of the Economic Impacts and Social Benefits of Assistance Provided by Alaska Legal Services Corporation

  By NLADA on March 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  ALSC has in economic impacts alone, has exceeded the dollars invested by a ratio of five to one. ALSC’s efforts stabilize and sustain families, save people’s homes from foreclosure, secure federal benefits denied eligible Alaskans, maintain communities, and make society safer.

• Civil Legal Aid in the United States: An Update for 2019

  By NLADA on February 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This report outlines the developments in civil legal aid between July 2017 and December 2019.

• Economic Impacts of Civil Legal Aid Organizations in Georgia

  By NLADA on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Investments made in 2011 in three of Georgia’s largest legal aid organizations — Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, and Georgia Legal Services Program — yielded total economic impacts amounting to 8.5 times the invested funds.

• An Assessment of the Economic and Societal Impacts of Three Legal Services Programs Funded by The Marin Community Foundation 2009-2012

  By NLADA on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Three organizations in Marin County, California — Legal Aid of Marin (LAM), Family and Children’s Law Center (FACLC), and Canal Alliance’s Immigration Legal Services (CA-ILS) — in aggregate helped clients in more than 17,000 cases and yielded $38.3 million in economic benefits and cost savings to the entire Marin community during 2009-2012.

• Investing In Justice, Strengthening Communities: How Everyone in Missouri Benefits from Funding for Legal Aid

  By NLADA on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Legal aid is cost-effective. Every dollar of revenue for a Missouri legal aid program produces $1.84 of measurable economic impacts and many other benefits that are not quantifiable.

• The Economic Impact of Civil Legal Services in New Hampshire: Achieving Justice and Boosting the Economy

  By NLADA on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Civil Legal Services by three New Hampshire legal aid organizations together yielded total economic impact of $84.4 million during 2011.

• North Country Civil Legal Services Appropriation: Semi-Annual Report to the Judicial Council

  By NLADA on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  During the two year period, NHLA helped North Country clients obtain federal disability benefits and health care coverage worth more than $1,589,637. The program cost $270,000 to run.