January 2021 Bar Bulletin
By Anne Daly
Welcome to the new year! As all are aware, the needs of clients served through Pro Bono Services have changed as well as increased. With new vaccines, helping us move toward normal (we hope) later this year, I wanted to flag some areas that currently need and will need help from our programs and volunteers.
With the eviction moratorium, evictions for non-payment of rent have been on hold the past several months. Our HJP team has been hard at work advising tenants on the moratorium; working on complex cases that are behavior-related evictions, including an increased number of appeals; and screening and assisting tenants...