AIDS Law Project Presents: Brian Sanders’ Multi-Experience Event | THANK YOU!
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania is thrilled to invite its family and friends to attend Brian Sanders’ Multi-Experience Event, at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2040 Christian St., Philadelphia. “When Brian Sanders takes you into his world, you rarely know what kind of magical, outlandish, Tim Burton-meets-Cirque du Soleil-type place you might…
Executive Assistant
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania (ALPP) seeks an Executive Assistant who will be responsible for providing support to the Executive Director. ALPP is a nonprofit, public interest law firm that provides legal representation, advocacy, advice and referrals to People Living with HIV throughout Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. Application Instructions: Please send a cover letter…
Data Entry Clerk
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania (ALPP) seeks a part-time data entry clerk to work twenty (20) hours a week in our Philadelphia office. The Data Entry Clerk will be responsible for entering data, maintaining files and providing front office support. ALPP is a nonprofit, public-interest law firm that provides legal representation, advocacy, advice and referrals…
Justice Worked: Transitioning from disability benefits to employment and back again
Our client is a 64-year-old woman who has been living with HIV for 30 years and on Social Security disability benefits. She began to feel well enough to return to work and got a job with a social service organization. She knew the first step was to contact the Social Security office so she didn’t…
Justice Update, Labor Day Edition: A lot of work to support a working client
Our client was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, when he was 20 years old. He relies on social security disability benefits for support, but supplements his income by working. Despite all the challenges he has faced while living with HIV for more than 30 years, he is committed to working. For more than five years,…
Justice Closed-period’ed: Back at work and it feels so good
Our client, a Camden County man, has been living with HIV for more than a decade. Two years ago, he was repeatedly hospitalized for severe gastrointestinal and respiratory infections. During one hospitalization, he was so sick, he was on a ventilator in the intensive care unit. He applied for Social Security disability benefits, but was…
Justice Authored: Dignity Matters
We are proud to announce that our long time board member Frank McClellan has a new book coming out. Frank is a professor of law emeritus at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He has distinguished litigation career, with a focus on regulation of drugs and devices, product liability, medical malpractice, risk management,…
Justice Won: A new advocate hits the ground running
This week, one of our legal interns, a student at Temple University Beasley School of Law, won a case on behalf of a man who has been living with HIV for 20 years and recently diagnosed with cancer. After his cancer diagnosis, the client’s live-in partner began to cover all of the household expenses. As…
Justice Declared: The road to Independence is Chestnut Street
243 years ago, just down the road from the AIDS Law Project’s Chestnut Street office, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Second Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence establishes our guiding principles “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
Justice Fixed: A handyman gets a helping hand
Our client, a 50-year-old handyman with HIV from Bucks County, was working in Florida when a boiler fell on him. His leg was fractured and he required multiple surgeries. He had been gainfully employed for more than 30 years and now was unable to work. He applied for disability benefits, but his claim was denied…