When courts closed for several months after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Maryland, the legal aid system – and the funding that helps sustain it – also grinded to a halt. The Maryland Legal Services Corporation, which funds ...

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Deb Seltzer hopes to guide Maryland Legal Services Corporation through the remainder of the pandemic and to focus on whether the legal aid industry is effectively addressing the most pressing needs of clients.

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Maryland’s chief provider of grants to groups offering free legal aid to low-income residents faces a nearly $7 million pandemic-driven shortfall, the executive director of the Maryland Legal Services Corp. said Thursday. To recover the losses, MLSC will try to ...

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When Shantelle Middleton walked into the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday, she didn’t expect to discover lawyers ready to provide information to help with her longstanding divorce and tax issues. “I was actually coming to get my ...

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Anne Arundel County has awarded a $50,000 grant to Maryland Legal Aid to help provide civil legal services to indigent individuals in the county. In 2018, Maryland Legal Aid served more than 120,000 people statewide. Of those, nearly 20,000 were ...

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Homeless people who need legal help to obtain disability benefits and other social services will soon be able to consult with a lawyer at Health Care for the Homeless’ headquarters in downtown Baltimore. Attorney Gabriela Sevilla recently began a two-year ...

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Reena Shah’s professional focus has shifted from international development to public policy and legal aid, but a common thread has run through her career: an emphasis on increasing human rights. Now the executive director of the revived, independent Access to ...

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Not even the prestige of Maryland’s top jurist could convince the General Assembly this year to support a state constitutional amendment to end contested elections for circuit court judgeships.

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Groups providing free legal aid to indigent Marylanders battled the Hogan administration Thursday over legislation to provide state-paid lawyers to low-income litigants in protective order proceedings and to parents in contested custody and visitation litigation.

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