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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in Resources, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on June 13, 2011 |

Legal Services in the News

 Trainings

 Disaster Legal Services Updates

 This week at TALS

This week we’re headed to visit our programs in the east and hold our quarterly Board meeting! We can’t wait to be in beautiful Chattanooga and share about the exciting projects we’re working on:

 Sending you all hopes for a sweet week!

Joy and Jelly,

PBJ

 

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in The Week in a Nutshell on June 7, 2011 |

The Week in a Nutshell

Don’t know about you, but this heat’s making us a little nutty ;)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Trainings:

Civil Legal Services in the News:

Resources:

  • Tell your community members in need about OnlineTNJustice.org!
  • Send TN disaster victims to our hotline #888-395-9297 for Disaster Legal Assistance referral  

Disaster Legal Services Updates:

PBJ:

Coming up this week…

  • Wordless Wednesday: A picture’s worth a thousand words
  • Thoughts Over Lunch: Creative Outreach
  • Summer Fun Friday (We know it’s still two weeks away, but when it hits 90 degrees, TALS goes ahead a breaks out the Hawaiian shirts)

Peace and Peanut Butter Cookies,

PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in Disaster Legal Services, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on May 23, 2011 |

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Manic Monday.

We are clearly busy bees here at TALS, since it’s 3:00 and I’m just getting to a post :) Exciting things are happening though. Here’s what’s going on in our world…

1) Disaster Legal Services Update

General Tennessee Disaster Information

Volunteer Opportunities for Attorneys

As the TALS Executive Director Erik Cole said in his recent article, volunteer lawyers’ participation in Disaster Legal Services is a marathon, not a sprint. Many disaster victims are still in survival mode, but soon there will be expanded realization of related legal needs.

In anticipation of providing pro bono services to disaster victims, there is a Disaster Legal Services Manual created by the Young Lawyers Division of the TN Bar Association. Free webcasts of their disaster legal services CLEs are available through the TN Bar Association as well.

  • OnlineTNJustice.org is LIVE. We encourage attorneys to register to provide volunteer services to flood victims through this new web based resource.
  • Sarah Hayman, shayman@tnbar.org, is also developing a list of attorney’s willing to assist with pro bono cases related to disasters in Tennessee. Please contact her if you’re interested in volunteering. Western Tennessee Counties are in specific need of volunteer attorney’s, so be sure to let Ms. Hayman know if you’re willing to help in this area.

General Disaster Legal Services Information

Opportunities for Everyone to Help

Donate Money

Donate Time

Resources for Tennesseans in Need

2) Legal Services in the News

3)TALS Trainings

As always, thanks for reading and let us know if you’d like to contribute a posting or question (loverton@tals.org).

Peace and Peanut Butter,

PBJ

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It’s Thursday, what are we up to?

Posted in Disaster Legal Services, Resources, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on May 19, 2011 |

Civil Legal Services in the News

Legal Aid of East TN – Domestic Violence Assistance

DLS Update

TALS Trainings

PBJ Update

  • Missed our ‘Thoughts Over Lunch’ series “Expanding Our Capacity to Serve’ the firt time around? You can catch up and read them all here!
  • Just can get enough info about the Legislature? We’re coming to the end of the session, so brace your self for some great wrap up info soon!
  • Have a story to share with our blog readers? No problem! Contact Linnet Overton (loverton@tals.org) about being a guest blogger, linking to your stories, or to share post ideas!

Peace and Peanut Butter!

- PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in The Week in a Nutshell on May 16, 2011 |

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This week, is all about welcoming our new TALS family member!

There’s more information to come, but here’s the skinny:

  • Her name is Samantha Sanchez,
  • She’s very organized, detail oriented, and kind,
  • She’s passionate about serving her community and equal access to justice, and
  • She volunteered in Alabama to help with post-disaster recovery.

The long and short of it is we’re excited to have her! Thanks for joining the team Samantha!

- PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in Disaster Legal Services, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on May 9, 2011 |

DLS Updates

Civil Legal Services in the News

 

Trainings

PBJ this Week

  • Continued Disaster Legal Services Information
  • ‘Thoughts Over Lunch’ with Erik Cole about Disaster Legal Services
  • Notes from the Peanut Gallery and Legislative Update

Peace,

PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in Disaster Legal Services, Resources, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on May 2, 2011 |

This week the focus for TALS is on disaster legal services. We’re working with our partners to provide services to victims, training to attorneys, and information to the public. Here are some of the things we have to share:

Services for Storm Victims

  • DLS Hotline 888-395-9297 – The Disaster Legal Services Hotline (1-888-395-9297) is activated to provide a resource for legal assistance to victims of the April 2011 storms.
  • OnlineTNJustice – Victims of disasters in Tennessee may go to the new web resource, www.OnlineTNJustice.org. OnlineTNJustice is a joint project of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the Tennessee Bar Association, which is supported by Dell, Microsoft, and the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission. On this website, Tennesseans are screened for eligibility and, if qualified, allowed to post a question to volunteer attorneys through a private messaging system 24 hours a day. Storm victims who find they do not qualify should still call the hotline to contact a volunteer attorney.
  • Call 2-1-1 – For assistance with any basic needs including food and shelter call 2-1-1.
  • Shelters – Updates of shelter locations can be found on the TEMA website.

Volunteer Attorney Information

General Disaster Information

Donations

  • Green County tornado survivors need tarps, blankets, sleeping bags. For more information contact Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee at (423)477-4053 or bring donations by the Food Bank, 127 Dillon Court, Gray, TN located just off I-26 at exit 13. http://aarp.us/jIZrBj
  • East Tennessee Foundation Neighbor to Neighbor Disaster Relief Fund Created. Learn how to donate here.
  • Local Red Cross centers have volunteer and donation information.

Volunteer

  • The Mid-South VOAD needs help sandbagging, assisting with evacuations, and manning the ESF-14 in the western part of Tennessee. Contact Loretta Hurt if you think you or your organization can be of assistance at 901.515.2584 EOC or 901.515.8742.
  • Tennessee Statewide Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) site has links to all local VOADs where you can contact people in your area to find out how you can help.
  • Local Red Cross centers have volunteer and donation information.

Updates

We will continue to update the blog as we have more information. Stay safe Tennessee!

-          PBJ (The TALS Family)

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in Resources, The Week in a Nutshell, Training on April 26, 2011 |

Hello everyone out there!

Here’s your Week SPRING in a Nutshell!!!

TALS is looking forward to more of this beautiful spring. Here’s what’s coming up on the TALS and civil legal services’ community calendar…

ON PBJ

  • Look for the last installment of the Thoughts Over Lunch Series “Expanding Our Capacity to Serve” this week. We have really appreciated the positive feedback we’ve gotten on this series and welcome suggestions for future topics you’re interested in hearing from our organization or a guest blogger about! Contact Linnet at loverton@tals.org to share your ideas.

DISASTER LEGAL SERVICES

  • With the anniversary of the May 2010 Middle Tennessee Floods, there are memorials and celebrations of hope and rebuilding happening and more resources becoming available all the time. Remember, the effects of a disaster in a community continue for five years or more following the event, so the healing and helping must continue for a long time.

Disaster Resources:

Memorial Events:

SPRING COMMUNITY EVENTS AND TRAININGS  

There are always many more community events and trainings held all around the state. (If you have an event related to legal aid or the concerns of legal aid recipients you’d like promoted on our blog, you can send your suggestion to loverton@tals.org.)

Woo Hoo spring!

-          PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in The Week in a Nutshell on April 18, 2011 |

Thanks to everyone who contributed to and attended our trainings last week! We had so much fun and really learned a lot. We hope you did too.

Training – Events and Continuing Education across the state

This week we are doing a lot of planning for upcoming training events.

We have a great Special Education Task Force Training that will be part of the Tennessee Disability Mega Conference in June. And we are planning for our 2011 Equal Justice University coming up in October. It may seem like a long way off, but it’s already time to mark your calendar and plan your organizations’ sponsorship of this amazing statewide event!

Stay tuned for info on more new training opportunities soon! In the mean time, check out the following activities and tools available this week.

Clinics – Opportunities to volunteer and receive civil legal advice

WEST TN

4/20/11 – Rural Outreach Legal Clinic
Memphis Area Legal Services  conducts an outreach legal clinic each Wednesday, from 1pm to 4pm, at the Fayette County Commission on Aging, referred to by locals as “The Senior Center,” located at 108 Kay Drive in Somerville, Tennessee. Call for more information 1-888-207-6386.

4/21/11 – Attorney of the Day

Attorney of the Day is an advice and counsel clinic held at the Shelby County Court House most Thursday afternoons in Room 134. Here, volunteer lawyers provide advice and counsel to persons filing pro se in General Sessions Court. For more information call 901-523-8900.

MIDDLE TN

4/23/11 – McHugh Legal Clinic
The fourth Saturday of the month, the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands holds a clinic at their offices at 300 Deaderick Street in Nashville. For more information call 1-800-238-1443.

EAST TN

4/29/11 – Legal aid of East Tennessee Knox County Clinics

The LAET Saturday Bar Clinics in Knox County are held at the LAET Office, 502 S. Gay Street, Suite 404, Knoxville, TN 37902. For more information call 865-637-0484.

Legal aid of East Tennessee Pro Se Divorce Clinics

Pro Se Divorce clinics are held in Washington, Green, Hamblen, Hawkins, Johnston, Carter, Unicoi, and Sullivan Counties at different times throughout the year. For more information call 423-928-8311.

Free Legal Advice in some Civil Court Cases in Washington County

Free advice and limited representation is available to some people with cases already in Washington County General Sessions, Circuit, or Chancery Courts. Contact Carla Forney for more information about free lawyers in your court 423-928-8311 or 1-800-821-1312.

Resources – Tools for non-profits

Have a great week!

-PBJ

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The Week in a Nutshell

Posted in The Week in a Nutshell, Training on April 11, 2011 |

Hello!

Another sunny Monday (with a chance of severe weather of course ;) ) and we’re looking at a busy week as always here in the TALS offices.

4/11/11

TRAINING

Health and Benefits Joint Training

As we speak we’re holding our Social Security Training. We’ve had some amazing presenters and there are even more to come! Only sticking point was a technical difficulty for our remote viewers watching via the web. Though we can’t show it live like we normally do, everyone will be able to view the training after it’s over from a link we’ll send out. We’re so sorry for the inconvenience and will have it fixed in time for our next training.

VOLUNTEERING

It’s national volunteering week!

Want to find out how you, your family, and colleagues can volunteer this week? If you’re an attorney, contact your local legal aid office to find out how you can volunteer at a clinic. Or, anyone can visit some of the sites below:

Second Harvest

Hands on Nashville

Volunteer Mid-South (Memphis)

Volunteer in the Knoxville area

Volunteer in the Chattanooga area

 4/13/11

CLINICS

Middle TN:

 H.E.L.P.
The third Wednesday of each month a legal clinic for the homeless is held at the Campus for Human Development located at 532 8th Avenue South in Nashville. Call for more information 615-251-9791.

4/14/11

TRAINING

Two Day Training on Immigration and Employment Issues

This will be an amazing event that covers a wide range of issues. For more information visit our facebook page and to register contact our training director Lisa Primm at lprimm@tals.org. 

CLINICS

West TN:

Attorney of the Day

Attorney of the Day is an advice and counsel clinic held at the Shelby County Court House every Thursday afternoon in Room 134. Here, volunteer lawyers provide advice and counsel to persons filing pro se in General Sessions Court. For more information call 901-523-8900.

4/15/11

TRAINING

Two Day Training on Immigration and Employment Issues

This will be an amazing event that covers a wide range of issues. For more information visit our facebook page and to register contact our training director Lisa Primm at lprimm@tals.org.

CLINICS

Middle TN:

 Catholic Charities Legal Clinic
The third Friday of the month, Catholic Charities holds a legal clinic at Our Lady of Guadalupe at 3112 Nolensville Pike in Nashville. For more information call 615-333-8660.

4/16/11 

CLINICS

West TN:

Saturday Legal Clinics
A joint project of MALS, the Memphis Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee and the Memphis Debt Collaborative, these clinics provide an opportunity for members of the community to meet with an attorney to discuss their legal issues.  9:00 am to noon, clients are seen on a first come, first served basis and the clinic stops taking new clients at 11:45 am, so please arrive before then to ensure sufficient time to discuss your problem.  To learn where the next clinic will be held, please call 901-523-8900.

East TN:

Legal aid of East Tennessee Blount County Clinics

LAET Blount county clinic held at the New Hope Blount County Children’s Advocacy Center, 212 Cates Street, Maryville, Tennessee 37801. For more information call 865-637-0484.

Legal aid of East Tennessee Bradley County Clinics

LAET Saturday Bar Clinics in Bradley County held the third Saturday of every month. Call 865-637-0484 for more information.

Hope you have a great week!

-  PBJ

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