CLE
Credit Hours.
Original Seminar Course Length: 2.0 Hours. (1.0 Ethics; 1.0 General)
This session will re-introduce the legal community to the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2018, known as the POWER Act. The act mandates that federal courts hold annual public empowerment events in partnership with domestic violence service providers and volunteer lawyer projects to promote “pro bono legal services as a critical way in which to empower survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and to engage citizens in assisting these survivors.”
The session will bring together lawyers and service providers to shine a spotlight on the critical need for pro bono legal representation of victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking in federal and state courts.
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Information contained in this audio/video complimentary on-demand product may be outdated and may not meet the criteria for CLE credit. Accordingly, the CBA is not automatically certifying any Connecticut or New York CLE credits for this complimentary on-demand product. CBA members who view/listen to this complimentary on-demand product may claim Connecticut CLE credit on their own as self-study if they determine that the information provided by the on-demand product is timely and relevant and otherwise meets the criteria in CT MCLE rule 2-27A.
- How to encourage lawyers to provide pro bono resources in an effort to assist victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking as they navigate the legal system
- How to educate the legal community about the importance of pro bono services and the issues unique to the representation of victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking
- About legal resources, available survivor assistance programs, training available through the CBA, and how to pledge to provide pro bono services
Who Should Purchase
Lawyers committed to greater access to justice for victims and survivors and to expanding their pro bono practice to include cases involving victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. Also invited and important to include are non-lawyers working on the front lines of this issue, including victim-witness advocates, service providers, probation officers, and law enforcement.
Edward J. Heath Margaret Groban
☐The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for non-transitional CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, or a fully interactive videoconference. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information about transitional and non-transitional courses, please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml. Financial hardship information is available upon request.
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