Representing Gender-Based Violence Survivors in Housing Cases
This training is designed to improve practitioners’ ability to represent survivors of gender-based violence in housing cases. In this training attendees will learn about the dynamics of domestic violence and how such dynamics can impact representation in housing cases. Attendees will also learn about federal and state housing laws aimed at keeping survivors safely housed, […]
Rights for Domestic Violence Survivors
A discussion of the intersection of domestic violence, housing, and child care access. This training presented by the California Women’s Law Center and Child Care Law Center (CCLC) will focus on the intersection of domestic violence, housing, and child care access. The session will level-set on the needs of survivors and their families, cover federal […]
Trauma-Informed Care and Healing-Centered Engagement
Learn how to provide trauma-informed care and healing-centered engagement as you provide legal services from the experts from the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence! Trauma can have significant impacts on how clients navigate legal services and the justice system. Learn more about their experiences and how to provide supportive and healing-centered legal services. Content […]
Do You Solemnly Swear to Interpret Accurately and Without Bias?: A Brief History of Professional Court Interpreting in the United States
A presentation on the recent history of courtroom interpretation. Professor Cozzens, who has also written about the history of California Rural Legal Assistance and legal representation of farmworkers, is a certified courtroom interpreter. He will discuss court interpretation in the United States from the perspectives of interpreters themselves and the individuals they try to serve. […]
Title IX’s 54th Anniversary: Sports-Oriented Gender Equity in Education – a Primer
Staff at legal aid nonprofits and related stakeholders will learn the basics of Title IX to ensure gender equity in federally-funded K-12 educational athletics contexts, with a focus on intersectional equity, easy-to-apply tools, and updates on the rapidly-shifting enforcement landscape.
How to Help Borrowers with Private Student Loan Collection
How to assist private student loan borrowers both before and in litigation using California borrower protection laws.
From the California Medical Debt Playbook: Offensive and Defensive Strategies to Protect Consumers
Navigating pre-litigation remedies, including hospital financial assistance, and protecting patients from aggressive debt collection.
Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 3)
This is a three part series of webinars presented by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Attendance at all three is strongly encouraged but not required. Part 1 gave an overview of pre-Trump II federal policy on disparate impact analysis in employment and housing discrimination law and how that form of analysis bears on the […]
Protected: Managing an Effective Litigation Program
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Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 2)
This is a three part series of webinars presented by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Attendance at all three is strongly encouraged but not required. Part 1 gave an overview of pre-Trump II federal policy on disparate impact analysis in employment and housing discrimination law and how that form of analysis bears on the […]