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The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

In this month's calendar, check out a few awards ceremonies, CLEs and a Public Interest Law Day event.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Effectuating the Right to Effective Assistance of Post-Conviction Counsel

It has long been recognized that Pennsylvania post-conviction petitioners enjoy a right to effective assistance of post-conviction counsel. Unfortunately, however, Pennsylvania courts have struggled to establish a workable standard for petitioners to vindicate this right when post-conviction counsel is ineffective—that is, until now.
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Corporate Counsel

Change.org Taps Ex-Wikimedia Lawyer as General Counsel

Tony Sebro is now responsible for protecting and enforcing the rights of about 500 million people worldwide who use Change.org to post and sign petitions for an array of societal, political and charitable causes.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pardons: It's Time to Finish the Job

Those with convictions have to "out" themselves repeatedly, and in almost every new situation, as they "check the box" that asks about criminal past on applications for apprenticeship programs, jobs, education, student loans, housing, business financing—making them easy targets for rejection, legal or not.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Reproductive Freedom: The Battle Is in Pennsylvania

Currently, there are several anti-abortion bills pending, including a six-week abortion ban (HB904/SB378), a "reason ban" that prohibits abortion when there is a diagnosis or a belief that a fetus has Down syndrome (HB1500/SB21), and a fetal/embryonic burial bill that promotes the belief that life begins at conception (HB118).
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The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

In this month's calendar, check out several informative CLEs, awards ceremonies and more.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

'Forced Labor'?: Class Action Targets Salvation Army Over Work Therapy Program

The complaint filed in federal court in Chicago said the group exploits vulnerable drug and alcohol rehab participants by threatening them with jail or the loss of food and shelter if they don't work for pennies per day.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Kirkland Donates $12.5M in Legal Fees from Maryland HBCU Case to Schools and Civil Rights Orgs

Kirkland & Ellis was awarded statutory attorney fees as part of a $577 million settlement the state reached with the firm's clients, a coalition of students, faculty and alumni of Maryland's four public historically Black colleges and universities.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bankruptcy Judge Asked to Find Camden Diocese in Contempt Over Alleged Concealment of $32M

"At best, this failure is the result of novel accounting; at worst, and more likely, the debtor is attempting to shield its assets from creditors while simultaneously failing to abide by this court's cash management order," the creditors' committee said in its contempt motion in the Diocese of Camden Chapter 11 proceedings. "These actions cast doubt on the integrity of this bankruptcy process and warrant immediate remedial action by this court."
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Daily Report Online

FLSA Suit Rings Salvation Army's Bell Over 'Pennies an Hour' Paid to Rehab Program Members

The complaint said participants in the Salvation Army's drug and alcohol "work therapy" rehab programs are forced to work 40 or more hours a week for as little as $1 a day.
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