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Yoanna X. Moisides
500 E. Lexington St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
(443) 451-2810
Fax: (410) 951-7818
Email: ymoisides@mdlab.org

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2010/2011 ANNUAL REPORT:

This Section received the Presidential Award for Best Section Project to Benefi t the Public for its advocacy in the Maryland General Assembly to secure an increase in court fi ling fee surcharges to alleviate the funding crisis for legal services for low-income Marylanders. It will, with the substantive help of the University of Maryland Health Law Program and printing funds from the Maryland Bar Foundation, publish a revised Handbook on Guardianship and Its Alternatives this June, and subsequently distribute the Handbook to the public as well as legal services providers and partners. The Section co-sponsored the 12th Annual Maryland Partners for Justice Conference and supported the National Lawyer Referral Conference. Its Section Council is represented on the Maryland Access to Justice Commission, the People’s Law Library Content Advisory Committee and the MSBA Planning Committee’s Access to Justice Subcommittee.

PURPOSES:

The purposes of the Section are to promote the administration of justice in the State of Maryland by providing and encouraging others to provide legal services in those areas of law practice in which legal representation is not adequately and routinely available through the normal fee-for-services private law practice, either because adequate fees are not available or because the client needs to identify a lawyer to represent him. Those areas of law practice may include, for example, legal services for the indigent, both civil and criminal; public interest law; civil rights law; law clinics for persons of modest means; consumer advocacy; legal services for the handicapped; prepaid legal service plans; and lawyer referral service.