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Charities benefit from class action settlement

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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The NAACP and several St. Louis area charities stand to benefit from a nearly five-year-old class action settlement in St. Louis County.

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri gets closer to campaign goal

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Another law firm has pledged a large donation to Legal Services of Eastern Missouri to help its goal of providing equal justice to low-income individuals. The organization announced that Spencer Fane Britt & Browne’s St. Louis office has committed to donating $50,000 to its First Annual Bar Campaign. The campaign will contribute to the organization’s [...]

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Lever wins national award

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Ann B. Lever, formerly with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, is being honored by The National Legal Aid & Defender Association. Lever will be receiving the Reginald Herber Smith Award at the organization’s annual award luncheon on Friday, Nov. 20, at the Hyatt Regency in Denver. The award recognizes the dedicated service and outstanding achievements of a [...]

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Nothing funny about financial state of justice

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael Wolff tried to open a morning discussion on financial pressures facing the state’s justice system with a joke or anecdote this morning. But he couldn’t. “It’s not a joke. There isn’t one,” Wolff said at The Missouri Bar’s annual meeting in St. Louis. A panel of attorneys and state legal [...]

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Legal Services hires Latasha Barnes for child health advocacy project

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Latasha Barnes has joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri as an advocate in the St. Louis Children’s Health Advocacy Project. Prior to joining LSEM, Barnes served as an intern for the Saint Louis University Law Clinic as well as the Missouri State Public Defender System and the Family Court of St. Louis County. She also [...]

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Legal Services receives $67,500 to support Children’s Legal Alliance

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri will receive $67,500 in funding from the Community Children’s Service Fund through the St. Louis Mental Health Board. The funding will help support LSEM’s Children’s Legal Alliance in its advocacy to obtain appropriate educational services for children in residentially-placed foster care. The alliance provides child-centered legal and social support for [...]

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LSEM to close Pinnacle Arbitration

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri announced this afternoon that it will indefinitely suspend operations of its Pinnacle Arbitration and Mediation Services. LSEM Executive Director Dan Glazier said in a statement that “with demand for LSEM’s services growing during these difficult economic times, we want to redirect resources to client representation.” Read more on this story [...]

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McCaskill to hold Senate hearing to examine reverse mortgages

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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Daniel Claggett, managing attorney for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, will testify Monday at a Senate committee hearing on reverse mortgages. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., will chair the Special Committee on Aging field hearing, which will be held at the OCHS Senior Center in University City. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. Reverse mortgages, [...]

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Legal Services announces awards winners

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has announced the winners of its annual equal access to justice awards. They are: Michael Gunn (R. Walston Chubb Award) Husch Blackwell Sanders (Equal Justice Award) Thompson Coburn (Ashley Award) Koreen L. Gummere (Richard B. Teitelman Distinguished Service Award) Larry Thomason, Jr. (Richard B. Teitelman Distinguished Service Award) Vincent D. [...]

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Caldwell-McMillan joins Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has hired Lucas Caldwell-McMillan to oversee the organization’s new St. Louis Children’s Health Advocacy Project as a staff attorney. LSEM also hired Jeanne Serra to be the group’s advocate. SCHAP was established from a three-year grant that LSEM received from the Missouri Foundation for Health. It is a medical-legal partnership [...]

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