About 600,000 Connecticut children, and the state’s economy, would be affected if Congress fails to renew key pandemic relief.
Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Posted inJustice
Former A.G. Holder issues call to action at Legal Aid fundraiser
Former Attorney General Eric Holder told a crowd of attorneys gathered in Hartford Thursday night that democracy will survive should its people band together and fight for those most in need.
Posted inJustice, Money
Foundations provide reprieve for laid-off legal-aid lobbyists
Grants from the Melville Charitable Trust and two anonymous family foundations will help give Connecticut’s poor at least one more legislative session represented by lobbyists for the state’s cash-strapped legal-aid groups. But the long-term financial prospects of legal-aid remain precarious.
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Court warned of ‘life and death’ stakes in domestic cases
The Connecticut Supreme Court heard a public interest appeal Tuesday intended to clarify whether applications for restraining orders in family-violence cases ever can be denied without a hearing. “This isn’t a technicality,” Linda Allard of Greater Hartford Legal Aid told the court. “This is about life and death.”
Posted inPolitics
Legal-aid to close its lobbying arm at State Capitol
The longest sustained funding crunch in the history of legal aid is about to cost Connecticut’s poor their long-serving lobbyist at the General Assembly: Raphael L. Podolsky, a Yale-educated lawyer who took them as a client 40 years ago, is getting a pink slip. So are his colleagues, Jane McNichol and Sara Parker McKernan. One lawmaker calls them “the conscience” of the Capitol.