Winter 2020

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ABA LRIS Cindy A. Raisch Award Winner: Florida’s Orange County Bar Association, LRIS

By Candice Maull

The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) in Orlando, Florida was honored to receive the American Bar Association's 2019 Cindy A. Raisch Award for demonstrating superior effort in revising or restructuring an existing Modest Means Program. Prior to 2017, the program had been inactive for over seven years, but we revamped the program to serve the need in our community for affordable legal services.

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Expanding Civil Legal Services through Limited Scope Representation and Modest Means

By Teresa Kenton

The Texas Lawyer Referral Service (TxLRS) like many other referral services get several requests daily for a pro-bone or modest-means attorney especially related to family law. This issue is compounded by the fact that our greatest request for assistance is to locate a family law attorney.

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(Logo) Change is Inevitable.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Such is the case for our LRIS logo. As many of you have probably noticed, the ABA launched a major marketing plan last year to bring all of the ABA logo designs into conformity. With so many different committees, centers, commissions, task forces, and other entities -- all of which have varied goals -- we felt it was important that everyone know that the ABA is one cohesive group.