Legal Services Lawyers May Once Again Seek Attorney Fee Awards on Behalf of Their Programs

In 1996, President Clinton signed a bill that, among other anti-legal services provisions, barred legal services programs funded through the federal Legal Services Corporation from seeking statutory attorney fees in cases that they won or settled on behalf of their impoverished clients. This provision hurt already cash-strapped poverty law programs around the nation.

As you may know, Congress has just passed, and President Obama is expected to sign, a massive appropriations bill. Among the bill's many provisions is one that provides a small increase for legal services funding and repeals the no-attorney-fee provision enacted in 1996.

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