CHAIR:

NEWS/EVENTS:

Suzanne Sangree, Chair
100 Holliday St., Ste 101
Baltimore, MD 21202-3472
(410) 396-3249 Fax: (410) 659-4077
Email: suzanne.sangree@baltimorecity.gov

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2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT:

This Section launched a newsletter through its homepage and provided support for a court fi ling fee bill in the state legislature to help address the funding crisis for civil legal aid to the poor. It also updated, and will soon publish, a Guardianship Handbook in junction with the University of Maryland Clinical Law Program. The Judicare Family Law Pilot project, which the Section helped launch through the Administrative Offi ce of the Courts and the Maryland Legal Services Corporation, completed its second year and is undergoing a formal evaluation by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Bowie State University. The Section also has representatives on the Maryland Access to Justice Commission, the People's Law Library Content Advisory Committee and the MSBA Planning Committee’s Access to Justice Subcommittee and cosponsored the 11th Maryland Partners for Justice Conference and the National Lawyer Referral Conference.

PURPOSES:

The purposes of the Section are to promote the administration of justice in the State of Maryland by providing and encouraging others to provide legal services in those areas of law practice in which legal representation is not adequately and routinely available through the normal fee-for-services private law practice, either because adequate fees are not available or because the client needs to identify a lawyer to represent him. Those areas of law practice may include, for example, legal services for the indigent, both civil and criminal; public interest law; civil rights law; law clinics for persons of modest means; consumer advocacy; legal services for the handicapped; prepaid legal service plans; and lawyer referral service.