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Presidential Memorandum on Restoring DOJ’s Access-to-Justice Function and Reinvigorating the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable
On 5/18/21, President Biden issued a memorandum directing the Attorney General to “consider expanding DOJ’s planning, development, and coordination of access-to-justice policy initiatives,” and reinvigorating the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR) geared toward improving access to justice. (86 FR 27793, 5/21/21)
Memorandum of May 18, 2021
Restoring the Department of Justice’s Access-to-Justice Function and Reinvigorating the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 21051833.
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