legal services

A bad month for the governor’s Mobile River bridge proposal got even worse on Thursday, Aug. 1, when the Legislature’s contract review committee placed a hold on the Alabama Department of Transportation’s contract with Birmingham law firm Maynard, Cooper and Gale. The panel is tasked with reviewing all state contracts. The $750,000 contract is for … Continued

The Alabama State Department of Education will request approvals this morning for contracts totaling more than $1 million, almost all of which will be spent on legal services. While the majority of the contracts before the state’s Legislative Contract Review Committee are routine — mostly dealing with issues related to students with special needs — … Continued

By Brandon Moseley  Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, August 23, 2017, Legal Services Corporation (LSC) President James J. Sandman joined Legal Services Alabama (KSA) staff for a day of events focused on civil legal issues affecting low-income Americans in Alabama and across the country.  The Alabama Political Reporter (APR) was asked by LSC and LSA to … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, August 23, 2017, Legal Services Corporation (LSC) President James J. Sandman joined Legal Services Alabama staff for a day of events focused on civil legal issues affecting low-income Americans in Alabama and across the country. On Wednesday morning, Sandman visited the Legal Services Alabama office in Montgomery to … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, October 6, the Contract Review Committee met and agreed to delay a $1.3 million legal services contract after State Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) presented objections to the controversial unbid contract to provide legal services for Alabama Medicaid to implement their RCO plan. Zeigler filed a request to delay … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, October 4, 2016 state Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) has asked the legislature’s Contract Review Committee to delay a controversial $1.3 million contract for legal services for implementation of the regional care organizations (RCOs) to deliver Medicaid healthcare. Auditor Zeigler said that the contract needs to be scrapped, and … Continued