A program is looking for Montanans to represent people in courts on tribal reservations, who often lack access to legal assistance when they need it. The Tribal Advocate Incubator Project wants to train lay advocates – that is, people who are not lawyers by profession – to represent folks in tribal courts across the state. …
In early 2020, Providence Montana and the Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA), with support from the Montana Healthcare Foundation, launched a medical-legal partnership (MLP) to provide support to patients in need of civil-legal assistance. Through this program, low-income patients can receive free legal help in areas of law including housing, benefits, insurance, education and employment, …
In states like Montana, the prescription for healthier patients may be lawyers. “Without legal help along the way, the woman would have just been like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’” Kallie Dale-Ramos, Medical-Legal Partnership Staff Attorney.
HELENA, Mont. – COVID-19 is underscoring the importance of ensuring that people’s estates are in order, but estate planning can be be tricky for tribal members. That’s why Montana Legal Services Association and the Indian Land Tenure Foundation have partnered to develop a do-it-yourself online form. Many tribal members own land through a trust in …
Natasha Chapel was at a loss when she received her termination of tenancy notice. A resident of Troy Mobile Home Park, Chapel got by on less than $800 a month. When she received the notice in early June, she suddenly faced the cost of moving her trailer and finding new, affordable housing in just two …
Lawyers often play a critical role in society. Perhaps nobody knows that better than Mēghan Scott, AmeriCorps’ project director of Justice for Montanans and the Montana Legal Services Association’s program coordinator of the Rural Incubator Project for Lawyers. In her role with the Justice for Montanans Project, Scott oversees about two dozen AmeriCorps members helping …
HELENA, Mont. — Legal documents can be hard to parse, and for rural Montanans, and it also can be hard to find help filling out those documents. The Court Help Connect Program assists people representing themselves on civil legal issues, by connecting them virtually with folks at the State Law Library who can answer their …
Attorney Sara Berg received the YWCA Woman of the Year Award Wednesday at her firm Browning, Kaleczyk, Berry & Hoven. Berg, who specializes in civil defense litigation and family law, was recognized as an 18-year pro bono volunteer with Montana Legal Services Association. The association provides free civil legal aid to low income individuals with …
