The percentage of successful disability cases aimed at reversing the denial or re-evaluation of benefits for the aged, blind or disabled has been consistently dropping for years, Legal Aid of Western Missouri said. Data provided by the Missouri Department of ...

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Legal Aid of Western Missouri formally announced the creation of the Young Professionals Board, which hopes to draw non-lawyer supporters.

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Margaret May, executive director of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council, stands outside a dilapidated house at 1806 E. 36th Street in Kansas City on April 16, 2010. Legal Aid of Western Missouri attorneys are looking to a rarely used statute to go after a Utah developer and help revive about 30 run-down homes in Kansas City’s urban core.

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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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Legal Aid of Western Missouri has good timing. One day after Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor and legal journalist who has written extensively about the nation's highest court, gave the keynote address at the organization's 11th annual Justice For All lunch. Rosen predicted that Sotomayor would be "handily" confirmed by the U.S. Senate, both due to her credentials and to Democrats' dominance of that body. What remains to be seen, he said, is how well she fits in with the current court and the extent to which she will embody President Barack Obama's call for more "empathy" from judges.

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With free legal services already at capacity, people in disputes who seek services elsewhere may be rejected, fall between the cracks or simply find themselves in a revolving door as they’re referred from one agency to another. Last week, Kansas ...

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Foland Wickens announces two new shareholders Foland, Wickens, Eisfelder, Roper & Hofer announced that Jacqueline M. Sexton and Kyle N. Roehler have become shareholders in the firm. Sexton, a 2000 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, began ...

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