Legalaidresearch.org Website Review

search below, browse links above, or click on search & filter above. nlada wishes to thank the public welfare foundation for its generous support to help create this site. which offers in-depth state-by-state comparisons and advanced interactive maps. this report by alan w. houseman outlines the history of civil legal aid in the united states and highlights major developments in the field, including increases in funding and improvements in access to services between july 2015 and december 2017.. the opioid crisis in america & the role medical-legal partnership can play in recovery. this issue brief by the national center for medical-legal partnership supports the need for legal services in addressing the non-medical issues for legal clients with substance use disorders(sud)on their road to recovery. citing case studies of existing recovery-based mlps in ohio, indiana,and nevada, this paper provides a well-supported argument for the impact of lawyers as significant actors in combating “in the long run, legal aid programs’ investment in randomized study will not only improve services and help direct scarce resources, the willingness of the legal aid movement to question itself and change in response will demonstrate to the wider world that our work is, in the end, focused on doing the best we can to help very poor people, in often-desperate circu*stances, to improve their lives.” --steven eppler-epstein, executive director of connecticut legal services the research imperative of refining ways to measure justice is important and necessary. our work as lawyers improves the more we know about our effectiveness and the more our choices are evidence based. nevertheless, quantifying the work of a lawyer is not easy. clients, explaining the systems in which they operate, and supporting them through often very difficult times in their lives? this website and its sponsors do not provide legal services. if you need legal aid, contact providers in your state