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Access To Justice: A Roadmap For Reform, Deborah L. Rhode Mar 2016

Access To Justice: A Roadmap For Reform, Deborah L. Rhode

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Pro Bono Legal Services: The Silent Majority—A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective, Victor Marrero Mar 2016

Pro Bono Legal Services: The Silent Majority—A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective, Victor Marrero

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Case For Court-Based Document Assembly Programs: A Review Of The New York State Court System's "Diy" Forms, Rochelle Klempner Mar 2016

The Case For Court-Based Document Assembly Programs: A Review Of The New York State Court System's "Diy" Forms, Rochelle Klempner

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Lippman's Law: Debating The Fifty-Hour Pro Bono Requirement For Bar Admission, Justin Hansford Mar 2016

Lippman's Law: Debating The Fifty-Hour Pro Bono Requirement For Bar Admission, Justin Hansford

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Response To Professor Paul Secunda's Comparatice Analysis Of The Treatment Of Employment Claims In Insolvency Proceedings And Guarantee Schemes In Oecd Countries, Israel Goldowitz Mar 2016

Response To Professor Paul Secunda's Comparatice Analysis Of The Treatment Of Employment Claims In Insolvency Proceedings And Guarantee Schemes In Oecd Countries, Israel Goldowitz

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Putting Exclusionary Zoning In Its Place: Affordable Housing And Geographical Scale, Christopher Serkin, Leslie Wellington Mar 2016

Putting Exclusionary Zoning In Its Place: Affordable Housing And Geographical Scale, Christopher Serkin, Leslie Wellington

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Modifying Or Terminating Pension Plans Through Chapter 9 Bankruptcies With A Focus On California, Joanne Lau Mar 2016

Modifying Or Terminating Pension Plans Through Chapter 9 Bankruptcies With A Focus On California, Joanne Lau

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Administrative Oversight Of State Medicaid Payment Policies:Giving Teeth To The Equal Access Provision, Julia Bienstock Feb 2016

Administrative Oversight Of State Medicaid Payment Policies:Giving Teeth To The Equal Access Provision, Julia Bienstock

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Collateral Consequences: How Reliable Data And Resources Can Change The Way Law Is Practiced, Christopher Gowen, Erin Magary Feb 2016

Collateral Consequences: How Reliable Data And Resources Can Change The Way Law Is Practiced, Christopher Gowen, Erin Magary

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Lawyer's Obligation To Correct Social Injustice!, James F. Gill Feb 2016

The Lawyer's Obligation To Correct Social Injustice!, James F. Gill

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Housing Crash And The End Of American Citizenship, Matt Stoller Feb 2016

The Housing Crash And The End Of American Citizenship, Matt Stoller

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Lawyers And The Secret Welfare State, Milan Markovic Jan 2016

Lawyers And The Secret Welfare State, Milan Markovic

Fordham Law Review

This Article suggests that the United States maintains a secret welfare state. The secret welfare state exists because of lawyers' ubiquitous use of questionable practices in representing clients before benefit-granting government agencies, which enable thousands of individuals to collect public benefits who may not qualify for them. This Article focuses in particular on lawyers' handling of evidence of nondisability in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) proceedings and participation in Medicaid planning. Although lawyers' conduct in seeking to minimize their clients' tax obligations has received substantial scrutiny, lawyers' conduct in asserting claims to public benefits has not.