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Last week Legal Services State Support launched its new LawHelpMN mobile website. This site is designed to make the information on LawHelpMN accessible on smartphones and other "smart" mobile devices, with a variety of operating systems such as Droid and iPhone. You can now find legal aid organizations, and many useful articles, forms, and resources on your mobile devices at http://m.lawhelpmn.org. Nearly all the articles and forms on the full site are available on the mobile site, and some of the resources were reformatted for ease of use on the mobile site. The full site is still available at http://www.LawHelpmn.org, and can be viewed from any computer or other device. All the information on both the full and mobile sites contains general legal information only, and not legal advice.
At Some MN Clinics, the Doctor and Lawyer Will See You Now
When Eric Campbell's diabetes spiraled out of control last summer, he knew his nearly empty pantry was to blame.
An unexpected $130 cut to his Hennepin County food support left him with only $2 a day to spend on food. His caregivers at Hennepin County Medical Center's Whittier Clinic were alarmed as Campbell's health deteriorated, but they couldn't do much to help. It was a legal problem killing him.
Nurse practitioner Annie Goldbaum, though, was able to call in a lawyer — a colleague in her clinic who she thought could help. Attorney Carrie Graf met with Campbell, got permission to see his records and found the county had mistakenly calculated Campbell's food assistance payments.
That kind of legal intervention is increasingly common in Minnesota. Some health care clinics are adding on-site attorneys to their teams of doctors and nurses to provide convenient, free legal advice to low-income patients.
The state's first medical-legal partnership began more than 20 years ago at Community University Health Care Center in Minneapolis. Whittier, also in Minneapolis, began in 2013. A third partnership opened this spring at a St. Cloud clinic. Hamline University's law school is setting up a similar relationship with a clinic in St. Paul.
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New Resources
- CLE: Person-Centered Planning and the MnCHOICES Assessment (5/20/15): State Support
- CLE: Public Law 280 & Enforcement of Family Law Orders (5/29/15): State Support
- CLE: Broadening Your Impact: A Discussion of Affirmative Advocacy Strategies for Legal Aid Attorneys (6/10/15): State Support
Previously Added Resources
- CLE: The Author Speaks – Bill Wernz on Minnesota Legal Ethics Webinar (6/3/14): State Support
- CLE: Debt Collection & Garnishment for Non-Consumer Law Attorneys: What Every Poverty Law Attorney Should Know (11/17/14): State Support
- CLE: Do I Qualify? - Immigrants and the Affordable Care Act (11/7/14): State Support
- CLE: Writing to the Court: Briefs, Letter Briefs, and Proposed Findings of Fact Webinar (5/23/12): State Support