March 12/St. Paul: Violence and the Future of Mental Health Law

The Sandy Hook tragedy has raised questions about whether America’s mental health system is adequate to respond to mentally ill persons, including those who may be violent.
This program will discuss the law of mental disability, funding, medical and institutional options, the role of lawyers in issues facing military veterans who return home with mental health problems, and the intersection between mental illness and violence.
Title:
Violence and the Future of Mental Health Law
When/Where:
March 12, 2013
11:30:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
Room 101
Hamline University
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
Credit:
Approved for 1.0 standard CLE credit
Registration:
To register contact Deb Lange at 651-523-2122.
Speakers:

• Barbara Lindberg, Lead Nurse Planner, Optumhealth Education:Lindberg is an attorney and registered nurse, as well as an adjunct professor of law, teaching Mental Health Law in the Health Law Institute at Hamline Law. She has her BSN and earned her JD from William Mitchell College of Law. Before she came to Optumhealth, she worked as a health care contracts attorney in the Medicaid Managed Care Unit of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, and as a transplant management consultant for United Healthgroup.
• Judge Jay Quam, Presiding Judge, Probate/Mental Health Court in Hennepin County: A graduate of Moorhead State University and the University of Minnesota Law School, Judge Quam served as a shareholder at Fredrikson and Byron, a conciliation court judge, and an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He has been active with many Hennepin County and Minnesota State Bar Association Committees and with Minnesota Justice Foundation, receiving the HCBA Judicial Professionalism Award in 2010.
• Professor David A. Larson, Hamline Law: Professor Larson is a senior fellow at Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He teaches and writes on alternative dispute resolution, torts, mental health, and employment law. He served as "professor-in-residence" at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he worked on regulations and interpretive guidance for the Americans with Disabilities Act. He earned his JD from the University of Illinois College of Law and his LLM from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

By:

• Public Interest Law Community
• Hamline University School of Law Alumni Association
• Health Law Institute
• Children’s Rights Association

More:
http://law.hamline.edu/Eventsdetail.aspx?id=4294985288