Joe Surkiewicz: Leave your footprint on the Poor People’s March 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: May 3, 2013
Tags: Business, commentary, Joe Surkiewicz, legal commentary, maryland, News, ub law, urban child symposium

Still fuming over the media hoopla that surrounded the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library? (Wouldn’t, say, a mini-golf course be more appropriate for a guy famous for not reading books?)

Joe Surkiewicz: UM Carey clinic serves immigrants, trains students 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: April 21, 2013
Tags: Francis King Carey School of Law, Joe Surkiewicz, legal commentary, legal news, University of Maryland

The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Immigration Clinic has two operational goals. First, to help people facing deportation. And second, to prepare student attorneys for the actual practice of law.

Joe Surkiewicz: UB Law’s Urban Child Symposium to focus on trauma 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: March 31, 2013
Tags: Business, commentary, Joe Surkiewicz, legal commentary, maryland, News, ub law, urban child symposium

A quarter of children in the U.S. experience or witness a traumatic event before age four. And the number is nearly nine in 10 for children in the juvenile justice system.

Joe Surkiewicz: St. Ambrose expands legal services beyond foreclosure 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: March 17, 2013
Tags: foreclosure, Joe Surkiewicz, legal commentary, maryland, st. ambrose

St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Baltimore’s oldest nonprofit serving the housing needs of the city and state’s low-income residents, is reinvigorating its legal services program.

Joe Surkiewicz: Tax Sale Education Project helps seniors keep their homes 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: March 3, 2013
Tags: Baltimore, certificate of tax sale, consumer law unit, Education, Joe Surkiewicz, maryland, maryland legal aid, tax sale, tax sale education project

The yawn factor around tax sales of houses in Maryland is right up there with, say, watching paint dry. But the unintended consequences of low-income seniors losing their homes because of tax sales are dramatic.

Joe Surkiewicz: Beyond boarded-up houses 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: December 23, 2012
Tags: Joe Surkiewicz, Law, legal commentary

Signs of economic distress in a community go beyond houses in disrepair, boarded-up or in foreclosure. Another indicator is abandoned animals — especially cats.

Joe Surkiewicz: MLSC to recognize stalwarts of services to the poor 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: November 18, 2012
Tags: Joe Surkiewicz, maryland legal services corp., Maryland Office of the Attorney General

This year, the Maryland Legal Services Corp. has tapped some stalwarts of the legal services profession for its annual awards — and will also honor the Maryland Office of the Attorney General for its leadership in access to justice.

Joe Surkiewicz: HPRP forum explores intersection of housing, health 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: November 4, 2012
Tags: Homeless Persons Representation Project, Joe Surkiewicz, Law

The lawyers at the Homeless Persons Representation Project say there’s an important — but often overlooked — dimension to the problem of homelessness: health.

Joe Surkiewicz: MDLC gets out the (disability) vote 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: October 8, 2012
Tags: Joe Surkiewicz, Law, legal news, Maryland Disability Law Center

Here’s a surprising number in the run-up to Election Day: in Maryland, nearly 600,000 people have disabilities.

Joe Surkiewicz: EJC marks Civiletti’s lifetime of achievement 

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: September 30, 2012
Tags: Benjamin R. Civiletti, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell, Joe Surkiewicz, johns hopkins university, lifetime achievement award, maryland legal aid, u.s. attorney general

The Equal Justice Council, the fundraising arm of Maryland Legal Aid, awarded former U.S. Attorney General (and retired partner and past chair at Venable) Benjamin R. Civiletti its Lifetime Achievement Award at the EJC’s annual managing partners’ breakfast in Baltimore last week.

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