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Asthma HB6333 Press Release
September 12, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Amy Zimmerman, amy@legalcouncil.org, 773-988-8058; Stacy Ignoffo, stacychgoasthma@gmail.com, 773-628-7663 Beth Ritter Ruback, BRitterRuback@lungchicago.org, 312-628-0225 New law to help students with asthma in school Legislation…
Read MoreInnovative UIC Department of Pediatrics Program Invests In Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Health and Well-Being of Children with Chronic Illness
September 12, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sarah Hess, 312-605-1984, shess@legalcouncil.org Mark Minier, MD – mminier@uic.edu Innovative UIC Department of Pediatrics Program Invests In Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Health and…
Read MoreCuba Libre media release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2016 For more information, contact Kevin Mork at 312-605-1976 or kjmork@legalcouncil.org. Legal Council for Health Justice Travels to Havana with Cuba Libre benefit on August…
Read MoreSome gain, still pain
Illinois’ Stopgap Budget Offers Only Temporary, Partial Relief to Medicaid Recipients and Their Healthcare and Human Services Providers — joint statement from Legal Council for Health Justice and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
Read MoreSpeech, speech
On May 5, 2016, our esteemed colleague Justin Hayford, who has been working at the Council for 25 years, was presented with the Liberty Bell award by the Young Lawyers…
Read MoreJustin’s 25 for 25
June 1, 2016 Dear Friends, Family, and Colleagues: In my first week at AIDS Legal Council, almost exactly 25 years ago, I took two calls back to back. First, a…
Read MoreCHECK it out!
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) recently informed us that the Legal Council was chosen to establish a program at UIC to provide legal services to children who are cared for through the Coordination of Healthcare for Complex Kids (CHECK) program. This will allow the Council to grow our children’s program and hire additional legal staff to handle the significant demand. We will be able to bring on an additional attorney and two paralegals for the CHECK program.
Read MoreFederal Court Order Prevents Illinois from Cutting Children’s Home Nursing Care
May 10, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jill Wohl, 773-562-0159, jill@legalcouncil.org Jill Shea, (312) 558-3734, jshea@winston.com Robert H. Farley, Jr. 630-369-0103, farleylaw@aol.com Federal Court Order Prevents Illinois from Cutting Children’s…
Read MoreSlip in the name of asthma
The Help Schools Become Better Equipped to Handle Asthma Emergencies (HB6333) is now in the Illinois Senate and scheduled to be heard in the Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum…
Read MoreGive him liberty
The Young Lawyers Section (YLS) of the Chicago Bar Association names our very own Justin Hayford its “2016 Liberty Bell Award Winner.” This annual award honors a non-lawyer each year who works in the legal system on behalf of the most disadvantaged.
For twenty-five years Justin has been a case manager and paralegal at AIDS Legal Council (now a program of Legal Council for Health Justice). During his quarter century of service, Justin has tirelessly advocated on behalf of low-income people with HIV who have nowhere else to turn for legal assistance. He has has directly impacted the lives of thousands of clients, trained countless groups of service providers and legal professionals in HIV law, testified before legislative bodies, and taken on various state and local bureaucracies on behalf of his clients.
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