The 2021 Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Pro Bono Award: Elizabeth Murphy
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If you looked at Elizabeth Murphy’s resume, you would learn she is a partner at Alston & Bird where she serves as Chair of the Commercial Real Estate Lending and Servicing Team. What you would not see is that she has represented fourteen immigrant children escaping brutal violence in Central America, volunteering over two hundred hours in the last five years, to ensure they are safe with their…
Mental Health and the ACA
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Need to enroll in a health insurance policy or update the one you have? Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace (Healthcare.gov) is Nov. 1, 2021, to Jan. 15, 2022. GET COVERED Healthcare.gov plans are required to help pay for mental health services like counseling and psychotherapy. Healthcare.gov plans can’t…
Action Alert: Don’t We All Deserve A More Just, Equitable Community?
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Charlotte’s future is in our hands. We have an incredible opportunity to put Charlotte on the path toward equitable, long-term social and economic development. The Charlotte City Council is considering adoption of the Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan, a guiding document that will inform how our city grows over the next 20 years. Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy applauds the critical importance the plan places on dismantling the intentional…
Justice Would Bring Them Home
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Friends, For the past month, many have followed the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin who killed George Floyd last May. We thank the prosecution and courageous witnesses who took the stand and recounted this traumatic event in the pursuit of justice and accountability for Floyd’s family. Yesterday, the jury unanimously convicted Chauvin on all…
American Rescue Plan FAQs: Stimulus Payments and Tax Updates
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*Please note: this article was written in 2021 and may no longer be up to date. Click here for updates on filing your 2021 Federal Income Tax Return, including stimulus payments. Since the American Rescue Plan was signed into law in March 2021, the IRS has been working to implement provisions of…
American Rescue Plan Offers Relief
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Third COVID-19 Relief Package Passes as Pandemic Marks One Year On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law as the largest and most recent COVID-19 relief package extending $1.9 trillion dollars in aid to families, businesses, nonprofits, and states. This third round of aid comes as Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy marks a full year fighting to support families under the pandemic. And our work is far…
Responding to Crisis: Marking One Year of COVID-19
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Last March, few imagined that our community would still be grappling with the coronavirus pandemic a year later. In many ways it seems the pandemic is nearing an end after this year of hardship and loss: vaccines for the virus are increasingly available, and cases have dropped to a point where North Carolina is easing activity restrictions. But we…
Access to Justice: ‘Things are smoother now.’
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When someone contacts Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy for help, they are often struggling to stay afloat in a storm of crisis. They have a big problem impacting their life but do not know how to fix it. Their problem is a symptom of various unmet legal needs that need…
Pro Bono Spotlight: Nicholas Lee
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Nicholas Lee is an associate at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP and a dedicated pro bono volunteer with Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy through the Access to Justice Pro Bono Partners Program. Beginning in 2014, Nicholas has worked primarily in expunction cases, where his passion in pro bono work…
What does the American Rescue Plan (third stimulus package) mean for the Affordable Care Act?
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This blog content applies to health care coverage for 2021 and 2022. Need to enroll in a health insurance policy or update the one you have? Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace (Healthcare.gov) is Nov. 1, 2022, to Jan. 15, 2023. Get Covered What people need to know about the relief bill…
