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Baseline: The Realities of Civil Legal Aid

Explore the realities of civil legal aid, the barriers and challenges faced, and the need for equal access to justice. Discover the impact of funding cuts and the alternatives for ensuring justice for all.

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Baseline: The Realities of Civil Legal Aid

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  1. Baseline:The Realities of Civil Legal Aid Donny mackenzie

  2. The Justice Gap 2017 Justice Gap Report, LSC

  3. The Justice Gap 2017 Justice Gap Report, LSC

  4. LSC 2015 Annual Report 62.5/1.8M = 2.9%

  5. 1/10,000 VS. 1/6

  6. “I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay anyone’s cause for lucre or malice.”

  7. The Justice Gap

  8. Barriers and challenges

  9. Trends in Legal Aid Funding National – 50 states

  10. “The first duty of society is justice.” - Alexander Hamilton

  11. “Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.” - Lewis Powell, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice

  12. “Without equal access to the law, the system not only robs the poor of their only protection, but it places in the hands of their oppressors the most powerful and ruthless weapon ever created.” - Reginald Heber Smith, Justice and the Poor (1919)

  13. “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (1964)

  14. “But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.” - President Richard Nixon, 1974

  15. What’s the alternative?

  16. Where do we go from here?

  17. Justice Matters. For Everyone.

  18. Thank you

  19. Lack of Funding: Florida

  20. https://www.law360.com/articles/1094693/legal-aid-funder-faces-existential-crisis-under-trumphttps://www.law360.com/articles/1094693/legal-aid-funder-faces-existential-crisis-under-trump

  21. https://www.law360.com/articles/1094693/legal-aid-funder-faces-existential-crisis-under-trumphttps://www.law360.com/articles/1094693/legal-aid-funder-faces-existential-crisis-under-trump

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