A Resource Center for Georgia Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases
GACC is soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 2010 Georgia Youth Law Conference to be held in Atlanta October 27-29.
The abstract submission form is attached.
Presenters will receive complimentary admission to the conference and, for those who live more than 50 miles from the conference site (6345 Powers Ferry Rd. NW, Atlanta GA 30339), a complimentary hotel room.
The deadline for submissions is July 26.
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2010 Georgia Youth Law Conference
October 27-29, Atlanta, GA
Call for Abstracts - Deadline July 26
Abstract submission form and conference
information available online at GACCchildlaw.org
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Next Parent Attorney Training:
May 13-14 at the Fulton County Juvenile Court.
UPDATE: Training has been postponed.
Check back later for new dates, details and registration.
| June 18, 2010 7:30 am | to | June 20, 2010 12:00 pm |
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The Child Welfare Attorney Trial Techniques Training will be held June 18-20, 2010, at the Emory University School of Law. The training will begin at 7:30 a.m. on June 18, 2010, and conclude around noon on June 20, 2010. Current confirmed sponsors of the program are the Supreme Court of Georgia Committee on Justice for Children, the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts, the Georgia Association of Counsel for Children, the Georgia Office of the Child Advocate, the Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, the Parent Attorney Advocacy Committee and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia.
To maintain an optimal faculty-student ratio, enrollment will be limited to 60 attorneys. Scholarships are available for a limited number of attorneys meeting certain criteria. Contact cwtrialtechniques@gmail.com for more information. The application and scholarship deadline is April 30, 2010. Application Form
The goal of the training is to assist attorneys in developing the trial skills necessary to be more effective advocates in Georgia deprivation proceedings. The training is intended for Special Assistant Attorneys General, parents’ attorneys, children’s attorneys and attorney guardians ad litem. We are developing a dynamic agenda offering a full year’s MCLE credit (12 MCLE hours, including 1 ethics hour, 6 trial practice hours and 1 optional self-report professionalism hour).
National faculty and local child welfare experts will lead attorneys in a Georgia specific, “learning-by-doing” trial techniques training. The training will include problems and a mock trial based on deprivation case scenarios and Georgia law. Portions of the training take place in a simulated courtroom setting and students will receive faculty critique and video review. While the training will employ the NITA-method of operation for teaching the students, the training is not a NITA-sponsored training.
| December 11, 2009 | ||
| 12:15 am | to | 2:00 pm |
The Parent Attorney Advocacy Committee Meets regulary on the first Friday of every month at the State Bar of Georgia. For more information on PAAC please visit the “about us” tab.
The next PAAC meeting will be on Friday, December 11th.
To RSVP for a PAAC Meeting please contact Trish McCann, 404.232.8900 or TMcCann@gpdsc.org
| December 3, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:15 pm |
The next Legal Academy class “Reasonable Efforts Through Effective Case Planning and Implementation” will be led by Judge Michael Key on December 3, 2009, from 1:00-3:15 pm. Judge Key will teach about effective case planning as well as the required evidentiary finding of whether the agency has made reasonable efforts to reunify a family AND the evidentiary finding required to make sure reasonable efforts have been made to achieve permanency for a child/ren. Visitation as a required part of the case plan will also be addressed.
To register online, click here. CLE credit will be offered. Details available at the online registration site.
