Saturday, April 16, 2011

Budget cuts and legal services

Here are the links to two related stories on funding for legal services.

The Blog of the Legal Times is reporting that the bipartisan deal on the federal budget includes a $15.8 million midyear cut for the Legal Services Corp., which is the nation's largest funding source for civil legal aid to the poor. This is not good news, but the cut is actually smaller than the $70 million originally proposed by the House Republicans. Go here for the full story.

In a related story, the Wall Street Journal law blog discusses budget cuts for public defenders' offices across the country. Go here for that story.

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