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Equal Access Fund: Status Report and Technical Correction (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
Since 2014, the Legal Services Trust Fund Commission has been engaged in work to streamline and improve the efficacy of its grant making, including instituting new data collection protocols designed to determine the outcomes of the legal services provided through the Equal Access and Interest on Lawyers' Trust Account Funds. This report describes this effort to document the impact of legal services and demonstrate accountability in use of resources. The multiyear transition to a new grant-making platform also resulted in short-term challenges, and this report also contains technical corrections to previous reports prepared for the Judicial Council regarding the distribution of the Equal Access Fund.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The State Bar's Legal Services Trust Fund Commission (the "Commission") recommends that the Judicial Council:
1. Endorse ongoing efforts by the Commission to enhance efficiency and document the impact of the Equal Access Fund; and
2. Approve the following technical corrections to previously approved reports entitled Equal Access Fund: Distribution of Funds for Partnership Grants and IOLTA-Formula Grants:
a. For the report submitted for the October 27, 2014 Judicial Council business meeting, accept revised Attachment C that inadvertently did not include one of the grantees whose funding was approved by the Judicial Council.
b. For the report submitted for the October 26, 2015 Judicial Council business meeting, accept Attachment D that sets out the individual grant awards for each recipient of IOLTA-formula grants, which was inadvertently not included in the report. The report should be further corrected to note that the approved amount for the partnership grant award for the Alameda County Bar Volunteer Legal Services Unlawful Detainer Project was $25,000, not $55,000. Lastly, because of the tight timing of the grant c...
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