Indiana Legal Services Inc.
After the storm passes, legal questions swirl
February 27, 2013
Marilyn OdendahlAttorneys volunteer to provide advice and comfort to affected residents after natural disasters.
MoreILS Medical Legal Partnership gives Midtown clients access to legal services
September 26, 2012
Marilyn OdendahlIndiana Legal Services' clinic helps clients at Midtown Community Mental Health Center navigate through legal entanglements
that can ensnare them.
MoreLSC says funding cuts will reduce staff, close offices
August 16, 2012
Jennifer NelsonThe Legal Services Corporation offices around the country will have to lay off staff – including 350 attorneys –
due to funding cuts, according to a survey released Wednesday by the legal aid program.
MoreRestructuring revises coverage area for some pro bono offices
January 4, 2012
Jenny MontgomeryAs of Jan. 1, Indiana has 12 pro bono districts, down from 14. Some districts saw no change in their boundaries. But all saw
a sharp decrease in funding from the year before, marking the third straight year of declining funds.
MoreFunding less for legal aid offices
December 21, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThe groups will tap reserves in 2012 as their budgets decrease.
MoreCongress proposes cutting legal aid funding
November 16, 2011
IL StaffIf an agreement between the members of Congress passes, Legal Services Corp. will see its budget reduced by 14 percent. The
U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee had previously proposed cutting it by 17 percent.
More2011-2012 Civil Legal Aid Fund figures released
August 31, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThe Division of State Court Administration has released figures for 2011-2012, showing how the $1.5 million Civil Legal Aid
Fund has been distributed among 11 qualifying agencies.
MoreIndiana Legal Services weathers budget cuts
June 22, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThe ILS board has taken cost-cutting steps, which include not renewing staff contracts.
MoreLawyer commits to pro bono
March 2, 2011
Rebecca BerfangerThe aspirational pro bono goal for attorneys, set by the American Bar Association and endorsed – but not forced –
by many states, is around 50 hours. Some Indiana attorneys work this into their annual budget by working with pro bono district
plan administrators to accept cases when need exists and when they can easily fit them into their work schedules.
MoreCuts proposed to LSC budget would affect ILS
February 10, 2011
Rebecca BerfangerAmong approximately 70 proposed budget cuts, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee has proposed cutting $75 million, or
17 percent of the budget for the Legal Services Corporation, which funds 136 civil legal aid programs around the country,
the committee announced Wednesday.
MoreCourt's community-service policy is unenforceable
January 25, 2011
Jennifer NelsonThe Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s order that an indigent small claims litigant perform community
service in lieu of paying a filing fee, holding the informal local rule requiring community service is unenforceable.
MoreLegal aid budgets remain steady
January 19, 2011
Rebecca BerfangerWhile the need for services for indigent Hoosiers during these tough economic times continues to increase, civil legal aid
providers are reporting that budgets for 2011 will be similar to those of 2010, and the numbers of cases handled in 2010 are
comparable to 2009.
MoreArguments set in Medicaid appeal
January 19, 2011
Rebecca BerfangerIn a case that involves whether Medicaid applicants who were rejected can include information that was not in their initial
applications when they appeal, the Indiana Supreme Court has set oral arguments for March 3 at 9 a.m.
MoreClark County self-help center helps pro se litigants
December 22, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerWhen pro se litigants find themselves in a courthouse for the first time, there’s a good chance they aren’t quite
sure what to do. In the Clark County courthouse in Jeffersonville, just across the river from Louisville, a self-help center
for pro se litigants in civil cases has been operational since late May.
MoreFree CLE offered for pro bono volunteers
December 7, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerBar associations and pro bono districts are working together to encourage attorneys to sign up to participate in the annual
statewide Talk to a Lawyer Today event taking place Jan. 17, 2011. Free CLE, which is offered in December and January to lawyers
who volunteer their time with TTALT but is not required to participate in the event, is a video replay of a CLE that originally
took place in Indianapolis in October.
MoreACLU of Indiana's dinner to honor organization’s founder
September 21, 2010
IL StaffThe American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana’s annual dinner this year will honor Irving Fink, an attorney who helped
found the organization and Indiana Legal Services.
MoreCouple should have jury trial on legal claims
August 11, 2010
Jennifer NelsonA couple whose home is being foreclosed on is entitled to a jury trial on their legal claims against the mortgage holder and
loan servicer, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled today.
MoreIndiana's freedom fighter
July 7, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerA 90-year-old Indianapolis attorney couldn’t have predicted his legal career of more than 60 years would include handling
many controversial clients, including the Ku Klux Klan and conscientious objectors of the Vietnam War.
MoreCould Indiana adopt a law like Arizona's?
July 7, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerImmigration attorneys and victims advocates are reading up on the Arizona illegal immigrant law and bracing themselves for
what a similar bill in Indiana could mean for their clients.
MoreCenter, interns address migrant workers' legal rights
June 9, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerIndiana Legal Services Migrant Farm Workers Center, led by Melody Goldberg, helps migrant workers understand their legal rights.
MoreElder law attorney started as paralegal for ILS
January 6, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerToday it's a growing practice area, but three decades ago, only a handful of attorneys practiced what is now known as
elder law and not many more were aware of what it was.
MoreHigh court to give $750,000 for civil legal aid
December 23, 2009
IL StaffThe Indiana Supreme Court will give a total of $750,000 to 11 civil legal aid groups in January 2010.
MoreILS budget likely to increase
March 12, 2009
Rebecca BerfangerThanks to a $40 million increase in funding for Legal Services Corporations signed by President Barack Obama Wednesday, an
official at Indiana Legal Services Inc. estimates that the only Indiana-based organization that receives funding from LSC
will receive up to an additional $300,000 to $350,000 in funds for the organization's 2009 fiscal year, which runs Jan. 1
to Dec. 31.
MoreForeclosure programs aimed at judges, lawyers
February 26, 2009
IL StaffThe Indiana Supreme Court announced today it's partnering with Indiana Legal Services Inc. and the Legal Aid Society of
Southwest Ohio to sponsor training for attorneys, judges, and mediators about how to help families facing foreclosure.
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Judge Roger B. Cosbey is unethical and bias toward African American who seeks justice in Title VII claims. He disrespected and used his authority to attempt to intimidate me into taking an unfair settlement and when I refused he proceeded to get my case dismissed and to deny me my Constitutional and Civil Rights. He disobeying several rules of law; specifically, by ruling on summary judgment motions against the Fed. R. Civ. P., without authority of Judge William C. Lee, without consent of the attorneys, and with conspiracy to commit “fraud on the court,” as he conspired with my former attorney. He proved to me that he is bias, unethical, unfair and unfit to be reappointed. In my opinion, he should be disbarred in 2013, for committing fraud on the court, which would make him ineligible for reinstatement in 2014. See docket 3:07 cv 629 where he rules on dispositive motions, knowing magistrates are not vested with that power (especially without consent), grants the defendant an unconscionable number of extensions, accepts my former attorney request for extension for dispositive motion knowing he was working with the opposition, and unbelievably grants the defendant another extension after he requested an extension after he missed the deadline. I know another attorney filed charges against him for bias in race discrimination case(s). I know what he did in my case before he voluntarily recused himself, I just do not know how many other innocent people have been stripped of their rights because of him. I say shame on him and no more of the same.
they are pushing these cases against lawyers too far. thought-crime.
vagueness cannot challenged, so let's write all laws vaguely and throw the constitution out the window.Even if the court is operating under a particular law, if they don't it they will change it to their liking. What a joke!!!
Two convictions becomes one conviction with exactly the same sentence, only it is not clear wheter or not that sentence will be 18 months, 120 months or 138 months. Actually if the guns were in a home, whether or not they were his, he is protected under the 2nd amendment. Jurors need to learn the law and the constitution before judging others. The cour5ts need to do this as well.
With all due respect, Rick, I think you probably would be making a mistake by going to law school. The job market for attorneys is so saturated, you may well find yourself unemployed and with a lot of debt. You mention law would be a good supplement to your skills. True. But employers unfortunately don't value that. You will find that a law degree may well pigeonhole you into an attorney slot and limit career options. If you have a good job now I would hold onto that. As an attorney, you may well end up making less with the aforementioned debt.