This program will teach new attorneys and seasoned professionals effective writing techniques to assist pro bono clients with a variety of legal issues. Learn the tools to draft concise complaints, declarations and briefs to help your pro bono clients assert their legal rights and win their cases!
What you will learn:
- Drafting Effective Briefs
- Preparing Witness Declarations
- Crafting Complaints
All attorneys assisting pro bono clients through representation or in clinical settings, firm pro bono coordinators and partners, corporate law department pro bono managers, law clinic students and faculty, and public interest and non-profit organization attorneys and staff would benefit from attending this program.
Title:
Representing the Pro Bono Client: Effective Written Advocacy 2014
When/Where:
April 4, 2014
9:00 AM Pacific
San Francisco, CA
Also Webcast
Speakers:
- Co-Chairs:
- Robert P. Capistrano ~ Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid
- Jocelyn Larkin ~ Executive Director, The Impact Fund
- Program Attorney: Christina Thompson ~ Program Attorney, Practising Law Institute
Credits:
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
By:
Practising Law Institute
Cost:
Free
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Joel Levin has taught at law schools here and in Europe, including twice in Russia for the State Department. While in Russia, he arranged passage for Russian mathematicians and, with them, founded two software development companies. He has tried well over 100 cases and argued more than 200 appeals. Mr. Levin has published widely on legal philosophy, the common law, legal reasoning and logic, Shakespeare and Dickens each as legal observers, and a number of issues in ethics, beginning with his law school valedictory address on ethical procrastination. Recently, in the third of his four books, Tort Wars
The origins of Australian and US law from the English system should indicate that the systems are similar. Both have statute and common law, both make assumptions of innocence and pursue adversarial approaches to establishing guilt or liability. In practice, especially for education law, four core differences, three from Constitutional law and one from public law, frame the impact of both education praxis and legal challenges. This presentation will provide an overview of Australian law, and differences from US law, with examples of the impact of the differences on education law challenges: Individual rights; Reserve powers; the Establishment Clause, and the Briginshaw principle for burden of proof.
