Class recorded Wednesday, June 9, 2021.

Providing direct legal services to vulnerable clients can lead to great professional satisfaction for attorneys, law students, and volunteers. At the same time, heavy workloads and continued exposure to client stress and trauma can have the opposite effect, leading to compassion fatigue and even burnout.

This training will help advocates understand what compassion fatigue is and how to identify it in order to manage its effects so that they remain able to provide effective and competent legal assistance.

Presented by:

Jo Bloomfield, Managing Attorney, Mental Health Advocacy Services

Marissa Mowery, Staff Attorney, Mental Health Advocacy Services

Course Materials: If you would like to receive a copy of the course materials for any of the classes, including any PowerPoint used, please register at the Register Now! button for the class, provided below.

Registration Fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

Class recorded June 8, 2022

This session will explore the intersection between legal services and racial justice. It will begin with a discussion of the role of racial justice in legal aid work historically and the evolution of that role, particularly during this recent period of racial reckoning. A panel of experts will then discuss how legal aid attorneys, law students, and pro bono attorneys can use the civil legal system to continue fighting to dismantle systemic racism.

Presented by:

Tyler Press Sutherland (pronouns: she/her/hers), Moderator, Director of Racial Justice and Equity, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Jessica Mark (pronouns: she/her/hers), Senior Staff Attorney, Bay Area Legal Aid

Jeanne Nishimoto, (pronouns: she/her/hers), Associate Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic

Sabrina Forte, Director of Policy & Impact Litigation, Alliance for Children’s Rights 

Course Materials: If you would like to receive a copy of the course materials for any of the classes, including any PowerPoint used, please register at the Register Now! button for the class, provided below.

Registration Fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

Class recorded June 22, 2022.

This panel discussion will provide information regarding a variety of post-graduate fellowship opportunities, including the Equal Justice Works, Skadden, Justice Catalyst, and Immigrant Justice Corp Fellowships. Topics covered will include how to find a sponsor organization, how to ensure quality recommendations, how to develop a project proposal, how to shop it to sponsor agencies, and more.

Presented by:

Rachel Kronick Rothbart, Moderator, Director or Career Services Office, USC Gould School of Law

Stephano Medina, Skadden Fellow, Eviction Defense Network

Courtney Mendoza, Equal Justice Works Fellow, Equal Justice Works

Kathleen Rivas, Justice Catalyst Fellow, Catalyst

Rebecca Taylor, Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow, Immigrant Justice Corps

Registration Fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.

June 22, 2021: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Class will be held via Zoom. Zoom information will be emailed to registrants prior to class start time.

Update: We just learned that author and NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff will join us for our discussion of his book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy on Tuesday June 22, 2021 6:30 – 8:00 pm! Don’t miss this chance to discuss family separation at the border and other issues regarding immigrant children and families. Register here https://bit.ly/3xri764. Zoom link will be emailed after registration.

Join the LA Law Library book discussion group as we continue our year-long examination of immigration policies and issues with a discussion of Separated: An American Tragedy, by Jacob Soboroff.  As a correspondent for NBC news, Soboroff was among the first to report on the Trump administration’s family separation policy.  Beyond the headlines lay an untold multilayered story. Separated weaves together the voices of one separated family from Guatamala; the heroes who emerged to challenge the separation policy and worked on the ground to reunite parents with children; and Soboroff’s own story covering the issues at the border in Texas, California and Arizona, with administration officials in Washington, DC, and inside the disturbing detention facilities.

Awards:

• LA Times Book Prize finalist
• American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award Finalist
• Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television and Political Journalism (individual achievement by a national journalist)
• Soboroff, Julia Ainsley and team awarded 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism

Presented by: Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research

Registration fee: FREE

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.