Since 2003 Legal Aid communications director Joe Surkiewicz has written the Of Service column in The Daily Record, Maryland’s legal newspaper. The columns look at programs at Legal Aid and other civil legal services providers around the state that provide desperately needed help to low-income people, the elderly, domestic violence victims, immigrants, and abused and neglected children.
- Autonomy’s angels
- Pro Bono Week highlights ‘best-kept secret’
- Center helps crime victims assert their rights
- It’s a new era for tenants facing eviction
- How federal restrictions on Legal Aid hurt foster children in Baltimore
- Addressing needs as rights
- Time to jettison unjust, unethical bans on legal aid
- Putting MDLC in the crosshairs threatens the entire legal services community
- ‘Emeritus’ attorneys wanted for new homeless vets project
- “An exciting day of radical lawyering”
- New film will help balance scales of justice in Baltimore City rent court
- Legal services outlook for 2009: Grim…and hopeful
- Who will serve HERO’s legal clients?
- St. Ambrose works for sustainable homeownership
- Long-term care: It’s not just for the elderly
- Lawyers add value to Family Mediation Clinic
- Women judges help inmates prepare for life outside prison
- 20 years of helping kids with disabilities
- How can a lawyer help those facing foreclosure?
- Bridging the services gap in Allegany County
- Domestic Violence Center of Howard County celebrates 30 years
- New UM Law clinics take aim at disasters – and the big legal picture
- Elder law practice gets ready for the boomers
- Homeless Persons Representation Project gets a hand
- As real-world as it gets: Lawyers-to-be at UB Law’s new Immigrant Rights Clinic may be their clients’ only hope
- Don’t play the blame game with the foreclosure mess
- Bargains of a non-Faustian sort: Md. Public Interest Law Project helps UM Law students counter myth they must give up their career dreams
- ‘Chop the Locks’: Rosewood closing follows decades of advocacy
- Prisoners’ Rights Project focuses on the sick, forgotten
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Remembering Anilkumar J. Hoffberg: Legal Aid board member lived a life of warmth, expertise, and service
- Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc. raises the civility factor
- HIV clinic is an eye-opener for UM law students
- 1988 Cardin Report: A milestone for legal services
- CLC helps other nonprofits transform communities
- Farmworker Program focuses on migrants’ wage, housing issues
- The Women’s Law Center celebrates 35 years
- Prince George’s coalition tackles sub-prime crisis
- Sense of community key to mid-shore effort’s success
