Nonprofit Newswire | Legal Services Personnel Laid Off as Trust Accounts Wane

Ruth McCambridge

August 3, 2010

August 2, 2010; Source: Press of Atlantic City | South Jersey Legal Services plans to lay off a third of its staff by the end of the year, including a quarter of its lawyers due to waning funding in the state’s legal trust fund accounts. The cuts will result in 3,500 fewer people served. The Nonprofit Newswire covered the NewJersey.com story where it was reported that the funds that fed the Interest on Lawyer’s Trust Fund Account had plummeted eighty percent between 2008 and 2009.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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