viernes, 8 de diciembre: 1:00-5:00 pm

En California, las personas con discapacidades intelectuales y del desarrollo (I/DD) diagnosticadas antes de cumplir 18 años tiene derecho, según la ley Lanterman, a servicios financiados por los gobiernos estatal y federal a través de centros regionales. Si se niegan los servicios regionales, las personas con discapacidades intelectuales y del desarrollo (I/DD) también tienen derecho a acceder a una audiencia justa ante un juez administrativo para apelar las decisiones tomadas por los centros regionales.

Este programa comienza con una sesión informativa sobre los servicios y la elegibilidad del centro regional, seguida de una sesión de asesoramiento individual con un abogado de derechos de las personas con discapacidad para discutir temas como la denegación de elegibilidad o servicios de un centro regional.

La clase cubre:

• Derechos de las personas con discapacidades del desarrollo en California
• Descripción general del sistema de centros regionales de California para personas con discapacidades del desarrollo
• Derechos de la persona con discapacidad del desarrollo y responsabilidades del centro regional
• Audiencias justas para apelar determinaciones de elegibilidad o denegaciones de servicios
• Referencias para otros tipos de asistencia

Para mas información puede llamar al 619-814-8537 o mandar un correo electrónico al This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Presentado Por: Disability Rights California’s Fair Hearing Project (https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/)

Registro: GRATIS

LA Law Library no Brinda recursos asesoramiento legal: LA Law Library brinda recursos legales y asistencia con la investigación legal como un servicio educativo. La información presentada en este programa no es un consejo legal y se proporciona únicamente como un servicio educativo para nuestros usuarios. Para consejo legal, deberías consultar un abogado.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

This class will be hosted on ZOOM

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Social Security Administration (SSA) survivor’s benefits are important economic resources for widows, widowers, and dependents. Until recently, these benefits could be hard for surviving partners of same-sex relationships to obtain. In this class, learn how to access SSA survivor’s benefits for same-sex couples.

Class covers:

• The history of SSA policies that created a disparate impact for same-sex couples
• Key cases and laws that affect SSA survivor’s benefits for same-sex couples
• Common issues when a surviving partner requests survivor’s benefits
• Who may be eligible for same-sex survivor's benefits
• Timing and other factors when determining eligibility for same-sex survivor's benefits

Earn 1.0 hour general participatory MCLE Credit

MCLE Disclaimer: MCLE credit is only granted to attorneys licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California. Attorneys from other jurisdictions should contact their state bar to learn about credit reciprocity.

Presented by John Miller and Sarah Seville:

John Miller is a Legal Help Desk Attorney at Lambda Legal, where he provides legal education services to members of the LGBTQ community and those living with HIV. John also teaches legal research to LLM and JD students as an adjunct lecturer of law at USC Gould School of Law and works with Native American tribes to promote access to justice.

Sarah Seville is a Help Desk Attorney at Lambda Legal, where she provides resources and legal education to the LGBTQ community, people living with HIV, and their families. Her previous adventures have included work at Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, and the Ripped Bodice Bookstore.

Registration Fee: Registration for this public interest MCLE is FREE through the generosity of the Estate of Joan Lavine.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

This class will be hosted on ZOOM

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This one-hour training given by the Family Violence Appellate Project will help practitioners better represent survivors of gender-based violence facing eviction. Although this training covers multiple eviction defenses, it will focus on the Survivors’ Eviction Defense.  Expanded in 2023 and codified in Code of Civil Procedure §§ 1161.3 and 1174, the Survivors’ Eviction Defense protects tenants from being evicted because they experienced gender-based violence or another type of violent crime.

Class covers:

• The dynamics of domestic violence
• Eviction defenses
• How the dynamics of domestic violence can impact representation.
• Defenses for people getting evicted because they experienced abuse or violence
• The expanded Survivors’ Eviction Defense (CA Code of Civil Procedure §§ 1161.3 and 1174)

Earn 1.0 hour Elimination of Bias participatory MCLE Credit

MCLE Disclaimer: MCLE credit is only granted to attorneys licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California. Attorneys from other jurisdictions should contact their state bar to learn about credit reciprocity.

Presented by Taylor Campion: Taylor Campion is the Senior Managing Attorney of the Family Violence Appellate Project’s (FVAP’s) Housing and Employment Justice Program and has been advocating for marginalized communities’ housing and economic rights since 2012. At FVAP, Taylor provides attorneys and advocates technical assistance and trainings on legal issues facing gender-based violence survivors, represents survivors in housing appeals and creates written legal tools that help survivors’ assert their housing rights. Taylor joined FVAP after working as a direct services attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid and Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. As a direct services attorney, she represented clients facing eviction, housing subsidy termination, housing discrimination and habitability issues and clients with SSDI and SSI claims. Taylor received her J.D. from the University of Utah and B.A. from Haverford College.

Registration Fee: Registration for this public interest MCLE is FREE through the generosity of the Estate of Joan Lavine.

Monday, March 16, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Monday, April 13, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Monday, May 11, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

This workshop will only be taught in English

In California, many families struggle to care for adults who are not able to care for themselves. A conservatorship is an arrangement approved by a judge where a responsible person or organization is put in charge of assisting an adult with a disability with personal care or finances. This session provides help in preparing and filing documents to be appointed as a conservator. 

Eligible applicants will be seen by appointment only. To begin the process, eligible applicants must attend one of two information sessions offered each month (offered in English or Spanish each month), held on Mondays at LA Law Library on a first-come first-served walk-in basis. For more information or to see a schedule of available Mondays, please click here. 

IN PERSON: California Probate Conservatorships & Alternatives 

Appointments for the Petition Workshop are made upon completion of an information session.

Presented in partnership with West LA College Paralegal Program (Paralegal | WLAC) 

Registration fee: FREE