Tag: Webinar
Filling a Critical Gap: Representing Survivors Through the Criminal Justice Process
Please join Victim Rights Law Center and the National Crime Victim Law Institute for this interactive webinar exploring the critical ways that lawyers can assist sexual assault survivors as they navigate an often-hostile criminal justice system. The webinar will examine the myriad of ways lawyers can support their survivor-clients throughout the criminal justice process. Whether […]
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Creating Care Plans
In recognition of the widespread impact of vicarious trauma on legal services organizations serving survivors of sexual assault, VRLC recently created a Care Plan Template, which is a tool supervisors and staff can use to implement practices to help mitigate the impact of trauma exposure. During this webinar, VRLCs Maura Crossin will demo the new […]
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Legal Information or Legal Advice? Walking the Line
This session will explore the distinctions between legal information and legal advice and identify activities that may be the unauthorized practice of law. Advocates will learn how to provide meaningful and creative assistance on cases involving gender-based violence while remaining within the bounds of legal information. Case scenarios and examples will demonstrate how advocates can […]
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Intentional Care: Recognizing and Addressing Vicarious Trauma
Working as a legal advocate means walking alongside survivors facing difficult, emotional, and traumatic experiences every single day. This has an impact on you — on your emotional, physical, and psychological well-being. Carrying through and continuing the good work requires intentional care for yourself and a network of support. This training will equip you with […]
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Webinar: Legal Issue Spotting and Referrals for Advocates
Webinar: February 21, 11am-12:30pm Pacific/2-3:30pm Eastern Companion Discussion Session: February 22, 12-1pm Pacific/3-4pm Eastern In this webinar and companion discussion session for advocates, VRLC attorneys Maura Crossin and Alexia Tomlinson will explore how to incorporate legal issue spotting into client intakes, and provide guidance on when — and how — to make an attorney referral. […]
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In this webinar for non-attorney legal advocates, Jenna Cohan, Sexual and Domestic Violence Program Coordinator at the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, and VRLC’s Alexia Tomlinson, Esq., will review the dynamics of dating violence and explore how the safety needs of dating violence victims may differ from the needs of victims of domestic […]
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Webinar: Confidentiality Basics for OVW-Funded Attorneys Representing Survivors of Sexual Assault
During this interactive webinar, VRLC will cover confidentiality and privilege basics for OVW-funded attorneys representing survivors of sexual assault. We will help them explain attorney-client confidentiality and privilege to survivor-clients and will explore the intersections of VAWA and other federal privacy laws that impact their practice. We will share resources on jurisdiction-specific confidentiality laws, mandatory […]
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