Legal Services in the News Legal aid programs for poor deal with deep cuts Legal Aid releases special education brochures Fighting Mold in your Rental Property New website offers free legal advice to qualifying residents U of M Event Honors City’s Legal Pillars Helpful links from West TN Legal Services Cost for concern: Knox County [...]
Archive for August, 2011
The Week in a Nutshell
Posted in The Week in a Nutshell, Training on August 30, 2011 |
Thoughts Over Lunch: Finding Balance
Posted in Thoughts Over Lunch on August 26, 2011 |
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Author: Linnet Overton, TALS Outreach and Development Director I love to highlight the successes of legal services in Tennessee. On our Facebook page, Twitter, and here in our blog, we often get the opportunity to applaud our legal aid programs’ hard [...]
Equal Justice University Law Student Program
Posted in Training on August 24, 2011 |
Equal Justice University Law Student Program In 2011, it is our goal to make EJU even more accessible to law students than ever. In collaboration with the TBA’s Access to Justice Committee’s Law School Sub-Committee, we are reaching out to encourage law student attendance by: Including networking opportunities [...]
Interesting
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2011 |
“Looking for answers to questions that bothered him so…” – Jimmy Buffet I’m sure many of you have seen the voice activated transcription machines used in an office or in the court room and thought, ‘Wow! How does that work?!’ I know I have. Well here’s a little infograph to give you a very general [...]
The Week in a Nutshell
Posted in The Week in a Nutshell, Training on August 22, 2011 |
Legal Services News The Tennessee Employment Law Association (TENNELA) has started a website. Gordon Bonnyman, co-founder of the Tennessee JusticeCenter, has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the annual Health Care Heroes event in Nashville presented by the Nashville Business Journal. The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands has hired [...]
Thoughts Over Lunch: Inside EJU Part 4
Posted in Thoughts Over Lunch, Training on August 18, 2011 |
Inside EJU Part 4: EJU Freshman Class 2011 Author: Sarah Cooper, TALS MSW Intern As the newest intern for TALS, I have been given the unique opportunity to be a part of the planning and development of the Equal Justice University (EJU), as well as being invited to [...]
Creative Outreach Part 2: Thinking outside the box
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2011 |
Thinking outside the box In many way nonprofits differ from for-profit companies. However, there are many opportunities for them to learn from us and for us to learn from them, particularly in approaches to marketing and promotions. In a continuation of our search for more creative outreach tools, here’s one idea I stumbled into recently that [...]
Thoughts Over Lunch: Inside EJU Part 3
Posted in Thoughts Over Lunch on August 15, 2011 |
Thoughts….from the minutia Author, Samantha Sanchez, Contracts and Services Coordinator This year will be my first time participating in Equal Justice University (EJU). While I’ve been putting it together, this week is the first time EJU has felt real to me. On Tuesday, Linnet Overton, Lisa Primm, our Social Work Master’s program intern Sarah Cooper, [...]
Paris in the fall
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2011 |
Want to learn more about the 2011 Equal Justice University location, Paris Landing State Park? Check out thier website to see the beauty of this park!
Wordless Wednesday.
Posted in Wordless. on August 10, 2011 |
One photo. No words. Just a memory from EJU
