New Article on the Impact of Legal Aid Funding Cuts
Jonathan Smith, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, and Peter Edelman, Georgetown Law professor and chair of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, co-authored an article in this month’s Washington Lawyer on the impact falling funding and rising demand is having on legal aid providers. The article talks about the importance of legal aid in the lives of low-income clients, the shifts in government funding during the economic crisis, the importance of pro bono support, and more.
Also new on the Legal Aid Society blog is a link to a recent interview Smith gave with the Meyer Foundation after winning an award for non-profit leadership. In it he talks about some of the challenges his organization has faced in the economic downturn.