The Internal Revenue Service has announced that nearly 100 IRS offices will be open on Saturday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, March 26, to help taxpayers. The location of participating offices is listed on IRS.gov . The IRS offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. IRS staff will be on site

The Pennsylvania Bar Associaton Legal Services to the Public Committee is accepting nominations for the 2011 Pro Bono Awards. This is the 24th year that the committee is seeking individual award nominees and the seventh year it is seeking nominees for the "Judges Award" and the "Civil Legal Aid

Unemployedworkers.org reports that discriminatory practices that bar unemployed workers from consideration for jobs are the subject of a new inquiry launched this week by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Responding to reports of what EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien called "the

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $70 million cut from the current level in Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funding on February 19, reducing grants to 136 local legal aid nonprofit programs by an average of 18 percent. The proposed $70 million cut is from the Fiscal Year 2010 funding of

This post on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog discusses President Barack Obama’s budget proposal which calls for an increase of $30 million for the Legal Services Corporation in the next fiscal year, despite the proposal by House Republicans last week to cut $75 million from the $420 million budget

Senator Richard Durbin (IL), with Senators Jack Reed (RI) and Sherrod Brown (OH), introduced the Unemployment Insurance Solvency Act of 2011 (S.386) on February 17, 2011, which offers immediate tax relief to cash-strapped states and employers, preserves UI benefit levels, and creates new

Assessment part of Obama Administration plan to prevent and end homelessness For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have published the most authoritative analysis of the extent and nature of homelessness

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is eliminating eight magisterial district judgeships, through orders issued on February 15. The action will save the state an estimated $1 million and additional savings will accrue to counties. But the $1 million saved will barely dent the state Judiciary’s sixth