Quasi-update on Loan Repayment Programs
John R. Justice, Champion of Prosecutors Apologies, fellow legal eagles and food lovers, for my failure to provide any posts for the last month. My New Year's resolution is to make posting a regular part of my life (along with getting my butt off the couch more often). A recent article in The Prosecutor and a conversation with a fellow law school grad spurred me to give those of you poor, hardworking government and non-profit attorneys some information on the loan repayment programs currently being developed. According to this article , there are two more steps before people like me and my co-workers can start clamoring for funding under the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defedenders Incentive Act : appropriations and regulations. I'll let the article speak for itself: 1. Appropriations. The program must be funded either in the FY 2009 or the FY 2010 spending bill for the Departments of Commerce and Justice and the science related programs because the program will be administe...