Legal Resources

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1. CBA Legal Aid Committee Meeting: Community Collaboration
   This meeting focuses on creating partnerships between legal aid and other community organizations for the benefit of clients.
   Presenter(s): The Chicago Bar Foundation
   Updated: 05/16/2012
2. Serving Clients With Mental Disabilities
   Information for attorneys, paralegals and other support staff about how to serve clients with mental disabilities
   Presenter(s): Barry Taylor, Equip For Equality; Wally Winter and Diana White, Legal Assistance Foundation; Shirley Helm, Thresholds; Jim Grogan, Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission
   Updated: 08/03/2010
3. Americans with Disabilities Act and Housing Rights for the Disabled
   Video on issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) related to scope, public services and public accommodations
   Presenter(s): John Whitcomb, Equip for Equality
   Updated: 08/02/2010
4. Pro Bono Primer: Packaging Pro Bono Opportunities and Making the Most of Pro Bono Contributions
   Video panel discussion regarding pro bono opportunities and volunteer strategies
   Presenter(s): Chicago Bar Association
   Updated: 08/02/2010
5. Settlement: When, Amounts and What to Look out For Training
   Discussion about how to approach the settlement of a prisoner's civil rights case
   Presenter(s): James P. Chapman, Illinois Institute for Community Law
   Updated: 08/02/2010
6. Pro Bono Advocacy in the Legislative Context
   Video training on issues arising from pro bono legislative advocacy
   Presenter(s): Chicago Bar Association Legal Aid Committee
   Updated: 08/02/2010
7. Am I a Social Worker Training
   How to help clients while maintaining boundaries
   Presenter(s): Michelle Gellar, University of Chicago Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic
   Updated: 08/02/2010
8. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Age Discrimination in Employment Act: A Guide for Appointed Attorneys in the Northern District
   A manual for attorneys that contains a summary of the ADA (with its 2008 amendments) and the ADEA as well as summaries of employment discrimination cases decided by the Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit through July 2008.
   Author: Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
   Updated: 08/02/2010
9. Illinois State Bar Association
   ISBA's online information resources
   Author: Illinois State Bar Association
   Updated: 08/02/2010
10. REACH Legal Clinic and Simple Divorce Program Training
    Video on family, consumer, and housing law issues for pro bono attorneys
    Presenter(s): REACH Legal Aid Clinic; Legal Aid Bureau
    Updated: 06/02/2009
11. Foreclosure-related Eviction Training
    This training will focus on representing tenants who are being evicted either through a supplemental proceeding in a foreclosure case or a separate forcible entry and detainer action.
    Presenter(s): Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
    Updated: 12/15/2008
12. CARPLS Volunteer Training: Landlord-Tenant
    A Landlord-Tenant Training for volunteer attorneys at CARPLS.
    Presenter(s): CARPLS
    Updated: 12/15/2008
13. Youth Transitional Housing Programs
    A training covering the basics for a program interested in seeking licensing to be a YTHP.
    Presenter(s): Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Law Project
    Updated: 11/20/2008
14. Working with Difficult Clients
    This session provides practical tips for effectively working with difficult clients.
    Presenter(s): Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
    Updated: 11/19/2008
15. Pro Bono Reference Guide
    Provides Illinois law firms and corporations with direction, best practices and relevant samples to aid them in developing or enhancing the organization's pro bono program.
    Author: Pro Bono Initiative of the Public Interest Law Initiative
    Updated: 10/31/2008
16. PBI 2008 Agency Series: Engaging Pro Bono Volunteers
    A webcast of the training Engaging Pro Bono Volunteers by Pro Bono Initiative recorded on March 10 2008
    Presenter(s): Pro Bono Initiative
    Updated: 03/25/2008
17. Developing and Delivering Effective Presentations and Trainings for Law Firm and Corporate Pro Bono Attorneys
    This second and final program in the 2007 Pro Bono Initiative Agency Series is focused on micro level strategies for delivering personal pitches of your program and delivering effective and useful trainings to firms and corporations
    Presenter(s): Bob Glaves, Chicago Bar Foundation; Michael Bergmann, PILI Pro Bono Initiative; Todd Solomon, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP; Pauline Levy, McDonald's Corporation
    Updated: 12/21/2007
18. Moving Your Volunteers Beyond Their Zones of Comfort and Experience
    Webcast explaining different ways to get attorneys involved in pro bono work that is outside of their comfort zone
    Presenter(s): Pro Bono Initiative
    Updated: 12/21/2007
19. Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering
    Information about how to counsel clients from different cultures and understanding cultural differences
    Author: Sue Bryant & Jean Koh Peters
    Updated: 10/25/2007
20. Effectively Marketing Your Agency's Pro Bono Program
    Training on how to effectively use various tools to promote your pro bono programs, including websites, newsletters, and email.
    Presenter(s): Michael Bergmann, Pro Bono Initiative, Rob Acton, Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic, Murray Coffey,Jenner & Block LLP, Lisa Colpoys, Illinois Legal Aid Online, Mary Meg McCarthy, National Immigrant Justice Center, Allegra Rich, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
    Updated: 10/23/2007
21. Making the Most of Summer: Working Effectively with Interns and Fellows
    Discusses techniques for best recruiting and utilizing temporary student employees
    Presenter(s): CBA Legal Aid Committee
    Updated: 07/03/2007
22. PILI/CBF Pro Bono Initiative's Pro Bono Forum
    Three panel discussions regarding issues that affect pro bono work at law firms, corporate law departments and legal aid and public interest law organizations
    Presenter(s): PILI/CBF Pro Bono Initiative
    Updated: 05/08/2007
23. Communication Tips about Speaking and Lip Reading
    Information on speaking to an individual who is deaf and lip reading
    Author: Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf
    Updated: 04/19/2007
24. Communication Tips about TTY or Relay
    Information on TTY or relay for communication with individuals who are deaf
    Author: Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf
    Updated: 04/19/2007
25. Working with an Interpreter
    Information about working with an interpreter to communicate with an individual who is deaf
    Author: Midwest Center on Law and the Deaf
    Updated: 04/19/2007

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