The state legislature this week proposed boosting a civil legal services fund in its one-house budgets that attorneys say was severely underfunded in Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposal.
Read MoreCivil legal services for New Yorkers could be severely reduced in the coming years if the governor does not increase the spending authority for a public fund that keeps legal nonprofits afloat, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreA pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil legal services work, just as she did in the state’s recently passed budget.
Read MoreNew York’s legal community has responded with outrage after the governor decided to move forward with a sweep of a pot of money meant to fund civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers.
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