May 02 2018 Community
By Legal Services Alabama Legal Services Alabama is excited to announce that the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has recently issued a decision protecting tenants’ rights in a case where LSA appeared as amici curiae. The case, Morrow v. Pake, revolved largely around whether or not a tenant was required to assert his/her rights in …
April 30 2018 Community
Contact: William M. Logan, Associate Attorney Winston & Strawn, LLP 713-651-2766 Yuri R. Linetsky, Director of Clinical Programs and the Civil Law Clinic School of Law, The University of Alabama 205-348-1736 Michael Forton, Director of Advocacy Legal Services Alabama (256) 536-9645, ext. 3319 Phillip Ensler, Policy Counsel Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice 334-263-0086 …
April 12 2018 Community
Legal Services Alabama would like to congratulate Chris McCary on his recent win at the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Chris’s case, called G.R.B. v. L.J.B. to protect the child’s identity, centers on the issue of whether non-biological parents can terminate the parent-child relationship after acting as a parent for over a decade. In reviewing this …
April 11 2018 Community
Legal Services Alabama received an award from the City of Birmingham during CDBG week April 2-6. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and the City Council presented the award and proclamation on Tuesday, April 3 to only three of the 36 grantee organizations, and LSA was one of three organizations to be recognized for its community development program. Michael …
April 05 2018 Community
Our March 2018 Advocate of the Month is Felecia Pettway. Felecia joined LSA in April 2017. Prior to joining LSA, Felecia had a range of professional experiences. She has participated on many Alabama State Bar Association committees and has served as a Teen Court Judge for the Dallas County District Court. Felecia received a J.D. …
March 20 2018 Community
(From L-R): David Neslen, VA Gulf Coast; Ann Brown, Managing Attorney; and Tim Kingston, Staff Attorney, Mobile Office. Legal Services Alabama and the VA Gulf Coast have recently partnered together to offer free civil legal services to low-income Veterans living in South Alabama. On March 8, LSA’s Mobile office began offering civil legal services to …
March 16 2018 Community
On March 5, LSA welcomed David Roberson, Controller, to head its Accounting department. A native of Montgomery and easygoing and personable, Roberson worked at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 14 years – handling the organization’s sales, marketing, and finances. “I started there in college,” Roberson said. “When I graduated, our current Controller hired me as …
March 09 2018 Community
Our February 2018 Advocate of the Month is Tyler Brannon. Tyler joined LSA’s Huntsville Office in 2014. Tyler specializes in family and domestic violence law. A graduate of George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, VA (2010), Tyler worked as a legal intern for FairVote in Maryland. Brannon currently serves as Staff Attorney at the One …
February 26 2018 Community
Legal Services Alabama Deputy Director, Jaffe Pickett, provided testimony to the Alabama Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Thursday, Feb. 22. The testimony focused on economic hardships of people in poverty and the difficulty they may face with fees for maintaining or reinstating photo identification, transportation to vote in rural areas and …
February 23 2018 Community
By Farah Majid and Laurie McFalls, LSA Staff Attorneys On Feb. 2, 2018, Legal Services Alabama received notice that an appeal filed by LSA last spring, has been granted oral arguments and will be heard by a three judge panel. The appeal, which involves the rights of a person receiving a housing subsidy to a fair hearing, is …
