Lawyer Life

January has been designated National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month since former President Barack Obama first proclaimed it in...

Law enforcement found a Wake County elementary student hiding anxiously in his closet while gun shots were fired and after...

When Bob Bertisch and I were asked to do an article on pro bono, we were initially unsure what to...

“Housing vouchers are like gold,” says Legal Aid Staff Attorney Dorinda Wider. “There’s nothing more valuable to a low-income tenant....

Some people live real horror stories. When a young man, let’s call him, Kevin Davidson, separated from his girlfriend in...

Legal Aid staff attorney Joshua Ladd often meets clients at Breaking Bread, a café and community gathering space on Minneapolis’s...

In the Durham office of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence (NCCAI), Executive Director Christine “Chris” Mumma hangs a...

Michael, who is deaf, had banked with a credit union for several years. He accessed phone services for some of...

The Innocence Project of Minnesota works to free the wrongfully convicted and prevent future wrongful convictions from occurring. WHAT WE...

Sunday, July 16, 2006, I woke up with grand plans to spend the day with my husband, Tim, only to...