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The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership supports the expansion, advancement, and integration of medical-legal partnership by providing technical assistance to partnership sites, facilitating the MLP Network, promoting leadership in law and medicine and coordinating national research and policy activities related to preventive law, health disparities, and the social determinants of health.
Probono.net contains resources for pro bono & legal services attorneys, law professionals, and law students to assist in yourrepresentation of low-income or disadvantaged clients.
Recently, there has been exciting legislative activity around a potential federal demonstration project for medical-legal partnerships. A demonstration project would support and expand the integration of MLPs into healthcare settings and collect data on the effectiveness of the MLP model from both legal and healthcare perspectives, including measuring cost-effectiveness and patient health outcomes. There is strong interest in both the House and Senate for the MLP for Health Act, which lays the groundwork for an MLP federal demonstration project. The Act is now being revised and finalized.
Our neighbors in Charleston, WV have established a medical-legal partnership. Click here if you are seeking assistance for a West Virginia family.
Our neighbors in North Carolina coordinate the Elder Law Clinic, a program established in 1991 by Wake Forest University School of Law, provides free legal assistance to moderate income seniors, and serves as a resource center for lawyers and other professionals. In a partnership with the School of Medicine, the E-Clinic offers law students a unique opportunity to learn about medical and health law issues of older clients. To learn more, read "Ideals and High Heels" in the N.C. State Bar Journal and check out this video from the N.C. Bar Foundation.