June 2015

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ProJusticeMN.org Newsletter: June 2015

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  Cases for Volunteers

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  Pro Bono News
  • eFiling Becomes Mandatory for Attorneys, Agencies, GALs in 11 Pilot Counties on July 1: Minnesota Judicial Branch
  • Young Migrants Present State's Schools with Tangle of Needs — and Examples of Resilience: Star Tribune
  • Organization Is Connecting People with Legal Resources: KIMT.com
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 Featured Articles

LawHelpMN Goes Mobile!

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.

Read the full article here.


 

 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

Events and CLEs

6/30  |   Ramsey County Bar Association

Speaking their Truth: Ethical Witness Preparation

7/1 |   Office of the Attorney General
New Minnesota Court Rules: Overview of the Civil, General, and Access Rules

7/7  |   Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
Redwood Falls Free Drop In Legal Clinic for Veterans

7/8   |   Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, Central Minnesota Legal Services, Volunteer Lawyers Network
Representing Custodians of Unaccompanied Minors in Family Court Proceedings

7/14   |   MSBA Bankruptcy Law Section
Mortgage Foreclosure Laws from the Lender and Homeowner Perspective

7/14  |   Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
Minneapolis Free Drop In Legal Clinic for Veterans

7/15   |   HOME Line
Fifth Annual Full Ethics and Elimination of Bias Training - Not Just for Public Interest Attorneys Rebroadcast

7/15   |   MSBA Military & Veterans Affairs Section
Uniform Deployed Parents Custody & Visitation Act

7/16  |   Legal Services State Support
Using HotDocs to Prepare Criminal Expungement Pleadings Under the 2015 Amendments

7/22   |   Children's Law Center of Minnesota
Representing Youth in Foster Care: A Training Program for Child Advocates

7/24  |   Legal Services State Support
Best Interests, Taxes, and Support: The Family Law CLE You Need Before August 1

7/28  |   Volunteer Lawyers Network
VLN Volunteer Orientation


 

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