Aug 22/Web - #Consumer Utility Rights (Texas Legal Services Center’s Veterans’ Legal Assistance Project)

Advocates Serving Veterans is a service offered as a part of Texas Legal Services Center’s  Veterans’ Legal Assistance Project. It is offering several FREE 1 hour teleconference CLEs on a variety of topics of interest to Volunteer and Legal Services attorney serving low income veterans. 

This event:

August 22, 2011, 12:00-1:00 CST- Consumer Utility Rights

More Topics and Dates Coming Soon!

 Attorneys interested in attending this telephone CLE program should contact the TLSC Veterans Legal Assistance Project at 1-512-637-5417.

More:

http://lonestarlegalaid4veterans.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/advocates-serving-veterans-free-cle-series/

About Lone Star Lawyers for Lone Star Veterans

LSLA honors Texas veterans and service members by prioritizing their unique civil legal needs through our initiative, “Lone Star Lawyers for Lone Star Veterans”. We engage LSLA staff, community partners and pro bono attorneys to provide free legal services, advocacy and education to veterans and service members. LSLA is the fourth largest legal service organization in United States; we provide free civil legal services to low income individuals and families who have immediate civil legal needs but cannot afford an attorney. LSLA offers a broad range of free civil legal services to qualifying individuals, including family matters, child advocacy, education and civil rights, public benefits, health care access, consumer issues, home ownership, tenants’ rights, employment, estate planning, probate matters and disaster relief. LSLA serves one-third of Texas, its service area spans 76 counties throughout Texas and Arkansas and includes Fort Hood, Houston and Waco, regions which have high concentrations of veterans and military families.

July 21/Telecon - the extradition of Ratko Mladić (#international law)

The Global Rights Forum writes:

Join us by telephone on Thursday, July 21, 2011, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT for a free teleconference on the extradition of Ratko Mladić to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The program is sponsored by the International Human Rights Committee and co-sponsored by U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committee.

The recent arrest of Mladić in Serbia and his extradition to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes has provided new work for the ICTY and affected its forecasted budget.

Linda Murnane, Chief of Court Management and Support Services, ICTY, will provide discussion, and William Dunlap, Professor, Quinnipiac University School of Law, will moderate. Ms. Murnane will discuss the arrest of Mladić; obligation of States to cooperate; legal process of transferring the accused; impressions of ICTY at time of capture; how Mladić's capture has affected ICTY's budget; and what happens next.

Ms. Murnane will also discuss her experience serving as ICTY’s Senior Legal Officer, Chief of Court Management and Support Services, and former Acting Head of Chambers. She will describe the different approaches to criminal conduct in war that are handled at ICTY and the U.S. Air Force where she previously served for ten years as a military judge.

A 30-minute question and answer period will follow Ms. Murnane’s presentation.

Ms. Murnane’s views do not represent the official position of the United Nations or the ICTY.

To register and obtain call-in information, please visit the following link: https://apps.americanbar.org/aba_timssnet/meetings/tnt_meetings.cfm?action=long&primary_id=IC10159&webtextid=59984&Subsystem=MTG&related_prod_flag=0.

Please note that the host has NOT apparently applied for CLE credit on this; however, from the content and speaker it appears to this editor that, in some jurisdictions at least, you would be able to apply for credit as an individual. Consult your credit-granting body.
More:
http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=IC950000

July 11/telecon - #Texas Legal Services Center’s #Veterans’ Legal Assistance Project CLE

Advocates Serving Veterans is a service offered as a part of Texas Legal Services Center’s  Veterans’ Legal Assistance Project. The series will include several FREE 1 hour teleconference CLEs on a variety of topics of interest to Volunteer and Legal Services attorney serving low income veterans. Currently scheduled CLEs include:

 July 11, 2011 12:00-1:00 CST- Family law, including child support

July 25, 2011 12:00-1:00 CST- Unemployment Insurance

August 8, 2011 12:00-1:00 CST- Expunctions

August 22, 2011, 12:00-1:00 CST- Consumer Utility Rights

 Attorneys interested in attending telephone CLE programs should contact the TLSC Veterans Legal Assistance Project at 1-512-637-5417. More Topics and Dates Coming Soon!

More:

http://lonestarlegalaid4veterans.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/advocates-serving-veterans-free-cle-series/

About Lone Star Lawyers for Lone Star Veterans
LSLA honors Texas veterans and service members by prioritizing their unique civil legal needs through our initiative, “Lone Star Lawyers for Lone Star Veterans”. We engage LSLA staff, community partners and pro bono attorneys to provide free legal services, advocacy and education to veterans and service members. LSLA is the fourth largest legal service organization in United States; we provide free civil legal services to low income individuals and families who have immediate civil legal needs but cannot afford an attorney. LSLA offers a broad range of free civil legal services to qualifying individuals, including family matters, child advocacy, education and civil rights, public benefits, health care access, consumer issues, home ownership, tenants’ rights, employment, estate planning, probate matters and disaster relief. LSLA serves one-third of Texas, its service area spans 76 counties throughout Texas and Arkansas and includes Fort Hood, Houston and Waco, regions which have high concentrations of veterans and military families.

Feb 8/Washington, DC & telecon: Responding to Haitian TPS: Training for Pro Bono Lawyers

Learn how to represent Haitian TPS Cases

Trainers: Peggy Gleason of Catholic Charities and CLINC

Title:

Responding to Haitian TPS: Training for Pro Bono Lawyers

By:

Catholic Charities' Immigration Legal Services, Miller Chevalier

Monday February 08 , 2010

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Location:

Miller & Chevalier

655 15th Street NW, Suite 900

Washington, DC

Contact:

Kathleen Wach

Miller Chevalier

kwach@milchev.com

202.626.5565

To RSVP: Please email Kathleen Wach, Pro Bono Counsel at kwach@milchev.com

Miller & Chevalier will graciously provide lunch.

There is also a call-in option.

MORE:

http://www.probono.net/calendar/event.293504-Responding_to_Haitian_TPS_Training_for_Pro_Bono_Lawyers

Oct 29/Telecon: Death Penalty CLE

Now available as a teleconference with pre-registration!

Learn about the history and current litigation and legislative efforts challenging the death penalty in Washington and around the nation.

Presented by ACLU-WA legislative director Shankar Narayan and Jeff Ellis, president of the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
"Death Penalty Law & Policy" at the ACLU of Washington Office           
Free Continuing Legal Education presentation for attorneys:

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Available by teleconference with preregistration and also at:
705 2nd Ave, 3rd Floor Seattle, WA 98104

MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=1150

CLE Credit: Approved for 1.25 Credits in Washington State

This event has been re-posted due to the addition of the teleconferencing option!

May 28/Seattle OR by Telephone: 2009 Children and Youth Legislative Wrap-Up

Title: 2009 Children and Youth Legislative Wrap-Up: Beyond the Budget

When: Thursday, May 28, 2009
11:30 to 1:00 p.m.

Where: WSBA and by phone
1325 Fourth Ave., Ste. 600, Seattle, Washington State

(Directions)

Co-sponsored by the WSBA Juvenile Law Section and the Alliance for Equal Justice Youth Law Task Force.

Join us for an informative mini-CLE to learn everything you need to know post legislative session to serve children and youth. The program will include presentations on legislation related to child welfare, juvenile offender, civil legal needs of youth, children's healthcare and an overview of budget items impacting children and youth. Come learn practical tips about how best to advocate for your children and youth clients during this period of limited resources. If you would like to participate by phone, please indicate phone participation when you register and a call in number will be e-mailed to you prior to the event.

Approved for 1.5 general credits (WA)

Cost:
Juvenile Law Section members: Free
Non-Juvenile Law Section members: Free
Law students: Free

Registration: https://pro.wsba.org/forms/cle/S90528.asp

Questions and/or Special Accommodations:
Contact Jeannie Nist at jeannie.nist@teamchild.org.

It is not required to join the Juvenile Law section to attend this event; however you should consider supporting it by joining it here.