CLASI Advocacy Director John Whitelaw and his sons Brendan and Simon are riding bicycles 350 miles along the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal trails from Pittsburgh to Washington, DC from May 26 – 29, 2018. Your donation to the Combined Campaign for Justice in honor of this epic ride will support the work legal aid organizations in Delaware to…
The Combined Campaign for Justice held an appreciation event on February 23, 2018 at Richards Layton & Finger to celebrate the success of the 2017 Campaign to raise funds to support Delaware’s three nonprofit civil legal aid agencies. This article originally appeared in the April 2018 issue of The Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, a publication of the…
A recently completed study on the social return on investment in legal aid in Delaware found that every $1 investment in legal aid returns $7.23 in economic benefit for Delaware and its communities. These benefits include personal or community, inferred health improvements, and efficient increased access to justice. Read a four page summary of report, or the full report.
More low-income families and victims of domestic violence will have access to legal support thanks to a newly announced fellowship. The Holland Fellowship, which will be funded in perpetuity by the Randy J. Holland Family Law Chair Endowment Fund at the Delaware Community Foundation, was created to honor the legacy of Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland, who retired in March…
The November 2017 Profundo Bono performances of Public Enemy Running Wild were a huge and very entertaining success. All who attended one of the three performances enjoyed the Roaring 20’s costumes, the political protests, the excoriation of the political scandals of the day, alcohol, wiseguys, religious dames, and fixing the World Series which were all set to a lively Broadway…
Thank you to the dedicated and talented CCJ Legal Support Committee for organizing a fun and successful Oktoberfest Guest Bartender event on Thursday, October 5. Generously hosted by Tonic Bar and Grill and enthusiastically chaired by Shelly Daly, Vito Dimaio, Julie Dubreuil, Sue Ann Hall, Kurt Fetzer, and Jeremy Luzader, Oktoberfest netted close to $6,000 for the Combined Campaign for…