What Legal Services Programs Need to Know about LSC for 2012
MIE and NLADA Present:
Perles of Wisdom/Chuck in the Field: What Legal Services
Programs Need to Know about LSC for 2012
An MIE Webinar recorded on Wednesday, January 25, 2012.
Click here
to register for the recorded webinar.
This webinar offers LSC grantees information and insight into LSC
operations as they affect legal services organizations. Linda
Perle, Director of Legal Services at CLASP, and Counsel to NLADA Civil
Members, and Chuck Greenfield, Chief Counsel for Civil Programs at
NLADA, discuss:
- Increased Emphasis on Fiscal
Oversight - OCE visits, OIG visits on internal controls and fraud
vulnerability, Fiscal Oversight Task Force recommendations (scheduled
voted at the LSC Board meeting January 19 – 21)
- OPP Visits -
Status of Tier I recommendations
- OCE Visits and Inquiries -
Recent trends in OCE visits (e.g., team review of program publications,
website, bulletin boards); LSC letters to programs asking for written
documentation of legislative requests from semi-annual reports;
information about attorneys’ fees.
- OIG TIG Audits
- New Outcomes/Data Gathering
Effort by LSC
- Possible New Rulemaking on
Lesser Sanctions
- Your Questions
This webinar offers you an opportunity to hear from Linda Perle,
who has decades of expertise on LSC topics, in the days before her
retirement. And it offers you an introduction to Chuck
Greenfield as he takes on the key role of advisor to LSC grantees.
LSC
Directors: Remember
going forward, whenever you have questions about LSC requirements, call
Chuck at NLADA first.
This webinar does not cover federal funding challenges to LSC.
Presenters:
Linda
Perle
Director of Legal Services and Counsel to NLADA Civil Members
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
1200 18th Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
202 906 8000
lperle@clasp.org
Linda
has played a key role in national efforts to preserve and strengthen
the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). She writes extensively about the
LSC legislative and regulatory framework. She regularly appears before
the LSC Board and its committees on regulatory matters. She is
co-author of a highly regarded history of civil legal assistance in the
United States. She works closely with the staff of NLADA, the
American Bar Association, Management Information Exchange, and others
involved in the delivery of legal assistance to the low-income
community.
Chuck
Greenfield
Chief Counsel for Civil Programs
National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)
1140 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 900
Washington DC 20036
(202) 452-0620 x238
c.greenfield@nlada.org
Chuck
has recently been hired as the Chief Counsel for Civil Programs at
NLADA and in that role is responsible for advising legal aid programs
on LSC regulations, policies, and practices. He previously worked as a
program counsel for the Legal Services Corporation and as the Executive
Director of two legal aid programs (Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and
Legal Services of Northern Virginia.) Chuck also held positions as
director of litigation and managing attorney for Micronesian Legal
Services Corporation and as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society
of Santa Clara County, California.
Pay your registration fee at: http://www.m-i-e.org/temp/LSC_2012
(On completion you
will be given a link to the webinar and log in information.)
Or send a check to MIE and get registration information by email.
$50 for MIE subscribers; $70 for non-subscribers.
For more information, contact:
Patricia Pap, Executive Director
Management Information Exchange
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