April is Fair Housing Month. Incited in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., one week prior, Congress passed Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act in 1968, known as the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, …
MLSA Staff Attends Training
Broad-Based Legal Advocacy MLSA attorneys and staff recently attended training on broad-based legal advocacy. Hannah E.M. Lieberman, national consultant with extensive litigation and legal practice management experience, provided the training. Broad-based legal advocacy achieves good outcomes for clients and others. Litigation is one method used to get good outcomes, but other methods are also used …
Tax Information and Help
Do you know how to file your taxes for free? Do you need tax help? Are you in a dispute with the IRS? Let MLSA point you in the right direction. ► MontanaFreeFile.org is available for Montanans to find information on how and where to file their federal and state taxes. Find free …
MLSA Year in Review
Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) has big goals for 2013 and we'll share those in future blogs. But first, we’d like to tell about just a few of the major accomplishments we —with your help—achieved last year: Helped clients with 3,570 cases; Began the Foreclosure Assistance Project and helped 39 clients as of mid-December; Restructured …