LSC President Helaine M. Barnett praised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Nov. 25 for moving quickly to insure the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program, which provided $99.3 million to LSC-funded programs last year.
Karen J. Sarjeant, LSC's Vice President for Programs and Compliance, was quoted in a recent broadcast of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," which focused on the increasing demand for legal aid from homeowners and tenants faced with foreclosure.
Frank B. Strickland, chairman of the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors, joined other nationally recognized scholars, attorneys and judges recently for a symposium to examine trends in civil legal justice and the challenge of helping low-income persons obtain civil counsel and access to courts.
A Maryville woman’s complaint, filed with the Justice Department, accuses a nursery plant of discouraging her from accepting a job there so it could hire foreign-born workers.
Sabrina Steele claims Pope’s Plant Farm in Greenback and its owner, Mike Pope, discriminated against her for being a U.S.-born worker.
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