Tag Archives: legal services
New Report Highlights Impact of Legal Services on Human Trafficking Survivors
by CBJC StaffFebruary 1, 2016
The City Bar Justice Center’s Immigrant Women & Children Project (IWC) has released a report examining how legal services have helped clients change their lives.
Read moreThe Legal Hotline’s First 100 Calls of 2014 – by Libby Vazquez
by CBJC StaffJanuary 29, 2014
A mother with a crying child in the background wants to know how she can obtain a divorce from her abusive husband. A caller teeters on the brink of homelessness after being legally evicted from his home. A long-term unemployed father of two wants to know how to file for bankruptcy. These and some 100 other New Yorkers called the Legal Hotline in the first week of the New Year.
Read moreMulti-State Veterans Conference Generates New Ideas and Enthusiasm for Regional Collaboration
by CBJC StaffJanuary 10, 2014
In late 2013, the City Bar Justice Center and the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center co-sponsored a conference in Hartford on legal problems faced by veterans. Legal services providers from 10 different organizations from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maine attended the conference.
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