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Custody, Guardianship, and Obtaining Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (3-PART LIVE WEBINAR SERIES)
Live Webinar MDThis free LIVE WEBINAR SERIES, serves as a primer on custody, guardianship, and special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) for beginners with critical updates for more seasoned practitioners.
Veterans Benefits: Developing Personal and Witness Statements
Live Webinar MDThis training is intended for attorneys barred in any state, as well as law students, paralegals, and JDs who are interested in volunteering. The training covers how to work with veterans in developing personal statements and witness statements to submit with their veterans disability compensation claims and discharge upgrade petitions.
Name Change & Gender Identity Petitions: Representing Transgender & Gender Non-conforming Clients Effectively
Live Webinar MDThis training will enable attorneys to prepare and file petitions for change of name and for a decree of legal gender identity with the Maryland courts; understand and be able to advise clients on the differences between judicial and administrative options for gender changes; and represent transgender and gender non-conforming clients respectfully and in a way that affirms their human dignity.
Impact on Mental Health in Seeking Veterans Legal Services
Live Webinar MDThis panel will discuss the intersection of mental health and legal services. It will identify the issues that affect many of the less fortunate and underserved in our society especially the ones experiencing homelessness and military veterans and their families that causes mental health conditions. It will focus on various mental health conditions including PTSD due to combat or military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, and co- occurring substance abuse. The panel will discuss available resources and the role of problem solving courts, such as Veterans Treatment courts, in connecting individuals suffering from mental health conditions to legal services.
Litigation Skills Series – Practical protections for remote clients: Coercion, Confidentiality and Capacity
Live Webinar MDThis training will explore nuances of fulfilling a lawyer’s ethical duties when that lawyer is communicating by telephone or video conference. We will discuss risks that may arise, and practical ideas to mitigate those risks. The training consists of 50 minutes of instruction, 50 minutes of scenarios, and 50 minutes of open Q/A.
Legal Summit Series: The Art of Crisis Leadership (MSBA CLE)
Live Webinar MDMaryland State Bar Association (MSBA) and PBRC offer 3 free and 3 discounted slots for select MSBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to volunteer and legal services provider staff attorneys. Click for more details.
U.S. Supreme Court Impact Cases – 2020 and Beyond (MSBA CLE)
Live Webinar MDMaryland State Bar Association (MSBA) and PBRC offer 3 free and 3 discounted slots for select MSBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to volunteer and legal services provider staff attorneys. Click for more details.
Contract Drafting And Review For The Maryland Lawyer (MSBA CLE)
Live Webinar MDMaryland State Bar Association (MSBA) and PBRC offer 3 free and 3 discounted slots for select MSBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to volunteer and legal services provider staff attorneys. Click for more details.
Legal Summit Series: IP Issues in Hemp (MSBA CLE)
Live Webinar MDMaryland State Bar Association (MSBA) and PBRC offer 3 free and 3 discounted slots for select MSBA Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to volunteer and legal services provider staff attorneys. Click for more details.
Third-party Custody, Guardianship, and other Legal Strategies to Provide Rights for Non-biological Parents
Live Webinar MDThis training will provide perspectives and legal strategies to provide rights for non-biological parents to get enough legal authority in the life of a child to take care of various administrative processes (eg., school, healthcare, benefits, etc.). Topics include third-party custody, guardianship, and various less restrictive alternatives.