Faced with budget cuts and increasing demand, legal aid officials in Virginia will ask State lawmakers to increase the civil court that filing fees and require interest on money held for a client to go to legal assistance from the bank.
Federal grants to legal aid, which provides free services to poor people in civil matters, a cut of about 4 per cent in 2011, with an additional 15 percent cut effective Sunday, a loss of about $ 1.2 million in Virginia, according to the legal services Corporation of Virginia.
The interest paid on money the trust account-holding client-solicitor to refuse from $ 4.6 million in 2007 to $ 680,000 in 2011.
Statewide, the legal aid lawyer on employs about 125 38 offices. Open positions go unfilled this year.