For Mid-Missouri Legal Services, grant funding from the $2.2 trillion federal relief package cannot come soon enough. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, signed March 27 by President Donald J. Trump, includes a $50 million appropriation ...

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Under a new proposal, the budget of Legal Services Corp. would be slashed by 26 percent in its next fiscal year.

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The budget deal that prevented the government shut down amounts to a $15.8 million cut to the budget for Legal Services Corp.

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In February, Denise Brown predicted a funding source for legal aid agencies’ 2010 budgets would drop by about half. “I’m sorry to say I was accurate,” Brown said in an interview last week. Brown is the executive director of the ...

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St. Louis lawyer F. Wm. McCalpin, known as the father of Legal Services Corp., died Wednesday.

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St. Louis lawyer F. Wm. McCalpin, known as the father of Legal Services Corp., died Wednesday. McCalpin, who joined Lewis, Rice & Fingersh in 1948, helped create the national legal aid corporation and served as president of its board twice. ...

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Legal aid groups, long forbidden from taking on certain types of work, could see a change under next year’s federal budget. President Barack Obama last month called for Congress to do away with three restrictions enacted on legal aid groups ...

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