Facebook Live: Spotlight on Elder Abuse
Facebook Live: Spotlight on Elder Abuse Elder abuse can take many different forms, including physical abuse, financial abuse, and frauds targeting seniors. Attorneys Leigh Ann Moore, Caleb Pittman, and Seneka Land will provide information and answ...
Facebook Live: Domestic Violence Help During Covid
Home Sweet Home: What You Need to Know About Emergency Protective Orders & Going To Court During COVID Attorneys Ellen Johnson, Lana Gresham, Jennifer Perkins, and Kathryn Burke will provide information on assistance that AppalReD Legal A...
Join The Fight For Good: Pro Bono Attorneys Needed
How can you stay #HealthyAtHome when you don't have a home? Kentucky is facing an eviction crisis like never before. Recent research predicts that over the next few months, 1 in 2 Kentuckians won...
Thousands of Eric Conn client share checks mailed out by Prestonsburg attorney
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (MTN) — The majority of citizens who were affected by the Eric C. Conn disability claim debacle could see their long-awaited client share checks in the mail as early as this week. According to a Facebook post by Prestonsburg atto...
VLAK Newsletter June 2020
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Don’t Stop Believing: Virtual Tools Keep Us Serving Community During COVID Crisis
By Sarah Curry, Development and Communications Coordinator The needs of our community don’t stop because of COVID-19. In fact, if you saw the op-ed penned by Kentucky legal aid directors, including AppalReD Legal Aid’s Robert Johns, the need for c...
Supreme Court rules workers can't be fired for being gay or transgender
Published Mon, Jun 15 202010:06 AM EDTUpdated 7 min ago Tucker Higgins@in/tucker-higgins-5b162295/@tuckerhiggins Key Points The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that workers cannot be fired for being gay or transgender in a major win for mem...
Tyler Childers gets his name on Country Music Highway sign
Also buys a statue of disgraced lawyer PAINTSVILE, Ky. — Last Thursday was a red letter day for Tyler Childers. The country music star announced on Facebook and Instragram that he had marked two things off his bucket list, he got his name on a ...
Commentary: Kentucky’s civil legal aid programs brace for unprecedented need for legal help
As we begin the process of reopening the economy and emerging from the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic, health, and social/emotional hardships facing our communities will become clearer. COVID-19 will leave countless Kentuckian...
Rosenberg reappointed to state public advocacy commission
By Mary Meadows Staff Writer May 27, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear recently reappointed Prestonsburg attorney John Rosenberg to the Kentucky Public Advocacy Commission. He is the longest-serving member of the group, having served since 1994. He...