Analysis & Commentary
Attorneys' Fee Awards
Reasons to Oppose the Government Litigation Savings Act
This fact sheet summarizes how proposed federal legislation would unjustly prohibit those seeking to enforce important rights – such as free speech, gun rights, pollution protections, religious freedoms, and other civil rights – from recovering attorney’s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act or EAJA.
– 07/01/11
Working for Their Clients
The Legal Services Corporation was created to help provide essential civil legal services to low-income Americans. In the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled Congress imposed sweeping and unwarranted restrictions that continue to hamper the work of local legal services offices . . . .
Authored by: The New York Times, Editorial
– 10/08/09
Amici Request En Banc Review of Standards on Fee-Splitting
Recent federal court decisions establish a ‘virtually insurmountable’ standard for determining fees for out-of-district counsel that will ‘rob some civil rights plaintiffs of the only representation they can find,’ insists a broad coalition of 30 public interest organizations and private law firms . . . .
Authored by: Noeleen G. Walder, The New York Law Journal
– 09/18/09
A Test for Equal Justice
When Republicans gained control of both chambers of Congress in 1994, they promptly attacked the Legal Services Corporation, the federally financed program that assists poor people with civil legal problems. The result, on top of deep budget cuts, was a series of unwarranted restrictions that continue to hamper the effectiveness and efficiency of lawyers representing the indigent . . .
Authored by: The New York Times, Editorial
– 06/23/09
Reports from 21 States Identify Federal LSC Restrictions as a Barrier to Justice
Read what Access to Justice Commissions and justice planning reports have to say about the federal restrictions placed on LSC-funded legal services providers.
– 05/08/09
If You Gag the Lawyers, Do You Choke the Courts?
Article in the Fordham Urban Law Journal examines restrictions on legal services lawyers that are particularly likely to cause such interference.
Authored by: Laura Abel and David Udell, in the Fordham Urban Law Journal
– 04/10/02