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CLASI’s Laura Graham Named “Top Lawyer” by Delaware Today
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (“CLASI”) is excited to announce that Deputy Director Laura Graham has been named a 2023 “Top Lawyer” by Delaware Today magazine. She was selected as a top lawyer for immigration and international law, based on a poll of lawyers across the state regarding the best practitioners in various areas of…
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CLASI Deputy Director Laura Graham Receives Vision of Peace Award
(Pictured: Domestic Violence Coordinating Council Executive Director Angela DiNunzio Seguin, Laura Graham, and CLASI Executive Director Dan Atkins) We are pleased to announce that Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) Deputy Director Laura Graham has received the 2023 Vision of Peace Award from the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence, in recognition of her outstanding leadership…
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CLASI’s Megan Mahle Named Delaware Today “Top Lawyer”
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (“CLASI”) attorney Megan Mahle has been named a 2022 “Top Lawyer” by Delaware Today magazine. She was voted the top victims’ rights lawyer in Delaware, based on a poll of lawyers across the state. Over the course of her 12 years at CLASI, Megan has represented close to 1,000 clients.…
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CLASI’s Abigail Samuels Receives Roxana C. Arsht Fellowship
CLASI Staff Attorney Abigail Samuels received the 2022 Roxana C. Arsht Fellowship, which provides financial support to an attorney to assist their pursuit of practicing law in the public’s interest. Roxana C. Arsht was a native of Wilmington, Delaware and the first woman to hold a judicial position in the state. She dedicated her life’s…
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MLP Receives Community Health Champion Award
On April 13, the Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium honored CLASI with the 2021 Dr. Kitty Esterly Community Health Equity Award. This award recognizes an individual and an organization that goes the extra mile to put better health in reach of everyone, no matter how much money they have, their race, or the language…
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Nurse Family Partnerships Improve Health
The New York Times published an article about the efficacy of Nurse Family Partnerships, one of CLASI’s Medical-Legal Partnership Program partners, in helping low-income children. CLASI has supported NFP by providing free legal services to NFP clients with unmet civil legal issues–in employment, housing, benefits, and domestic violence cases. Since our partnership began, we have…
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Healthy Beginnings Program at CCHS Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
Congratulations to the Healthy Beginnings program at Christiana Care on its 10 year anniversary. The Healthy Beginnings Program is partially funded by the Delaware Division of Public Health and is a partner in CLASI’s Medical-Legal Partnership Program. CLASI received this letter in appreciation of our partnership.
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Brookings Institution Report Supports Medical-Legal Partnerships
A report just released by the Brookings Institution finds that Medical-Legal Partnerships improve health outcomes. The report recommends increasing funding for such partnerships. See the blog post and full report here: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-law-as-healer-how-paying-for-medical-legal-partnerships-saves-lives-and-money/
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Executive Director Dan Atkins receives MLP Award
The National Medical-Legal Partnership presented Executive Director Daniel G. Atkins with its Distinguished Medical-Legal Partnership Advocate Award at the National MLP Summit in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 7, 2016. The award recognizes an MLP practitioner (from health care, law, medicine, nursing, public health, or social work) who has made a significant contribution to the research,…
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