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The White House and the Department of Justice on October 13 will be honoring 16 lawyers as Champions of Change, including three executive directors of programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). The ceremony will be streamed live from www.whitehouse.gov/live at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

Four longtime leaders at legal aid programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will be honored on October 13 by the White House as Champions of Change for dedicating their lives as lawyers to closing the justice gap in America.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies has approved $396 million in Fiscal Year 2012 funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), a reduction of $8 million from the current level.

More than 60.4 million Americans are now eligible for civil legal assistance, according to new Census Bureau data.

Two committees of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will meet by telephone this month.

LSC seeks comments on proposed statutory updates relating to the Bureau of the Census' provision of poverty population data to LSC for per capita distribution of basic field funds. Current law requires use of decennial census data, which no longer includes poverty data for most areas. The proposal also recommends phasing in the first redistribution over two years and redistributing funds triennially thereafter.

John G. Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Board of Directors, today announced the membership of the Board's Pro Bono Task Force, which will help develop additional resources to assist low-income Americans facing foreclosure, domestic violence and other civil legal problems.

The Finance Committee of the Legal Services Corporation's Board of Directors will meet in Cambridge, Mass., on August 1 to consider a budget recommendation for Fiscal Year 2013.

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) today released its 2010 Annual Report, highlighting efforts by the nation's single largest funder of civil legal assistance to promote equal access to justice.

Funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) would be cut by 26 percent in Fiscal Year 2012 under a proposal announced by the House Appropriations Committee on July 6, 2011.

The United States is entering a new era in civil legal aid. For the first time since 1993, there is a President who is fully committed to expanding civil legal aid on a federal level and an administration sympathetic to rebuilding the civil legal aid delivery system and its long neglected infrastructure. Yet, while there is new hope for increased federal funding and a renewed interest in civil legal aid at the federal level, civil legal aid is facing reductions in funding from state sources which, until 2009, had been expanding and had overtaken LSC as the largest source of civil legal aid funding. State budgets are facing far greater crises than the federal budget and have far fewer options for financing because most cannot create significant deficits.