TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 4, 2021

The U.S. Justice Department has reopened its Office for Access to Justice, a unit created in 2016 to help low-income Americans who need legal representation. The move fulfills a promise by President Joe Biden to reinvigorate the office, which was shut down during Donald Trump’s administration, Reuters reports. The administration also recently released the 2021 report of the Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, which brings together more than two dozen federal agencies to address legal service challenges. This year's report focused on access to justice in the age of COVID-19.