CLC regularly hosts events and trainings. Please check out our current and past events below to see what we've been up to or to join us at a future event/training!
Join Children's Law Center for the first of 2012's Lunch & Law events, Thursday, May 24, at noon. Executive director Judith Sandalow will answer questions about our recently released comprehensive plan to improve DC's children's mental health system.
Children's Law Center will launch a comprehensive plan, "Improving the Children's Mental Health System in the District of Columbia," on Wednesday, May 9, Children's Mental Health Awareness Day.
Save the date for Children's Law Center's Helping Children Soar Annual Benefit, which will be Thursday, September 13 at the Kennedy Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant.
Join us to learn about the law and practice of serving as a guardian ad litem, representing the best interests of a child in a custody case.
Learn about adoption, guardianship, and custody law and practice with presentations by experienced attorneys from Children’s Law Center.
Children's Law Center will lead a training open to all CCAN panel attorneys on Tuesday, February 21. Topics are: CFSA policy from an advocate's perspective, removing barriers to kinship care and accessing mental health services.
Join us to learn about the law and practice of serving as a GAL, representing the best interests of a child in a custody case.
Please join us for a tour of the D.C. Superior Courthouse on January 24, 2012.
Current and prospective pro bono attorneys are welcome to join Children's Law Center for a Special Education training January 18, 2012, 1-5 p.m. and learn about representing parents and caregivers of children with special education needs.
Please join us to learn about adoption, guardianship, and custody law and practice with presentations by experienced attorneys from Children’s Law Center and a “View from the Bench” by Magistrate Judge Noel Johnson in the D.C. Superior Court.
Children's Law Center's Nancy Drane will serve as moderator at Family Court's second annual Abuse and Neglect Branch Bench-Bar Dialogue Wednesday, November 30.
Join CLC for a live webinar on November 16th at 12:30pm. CLC's own Michael FitzPatrick will describe the course of events in the first 72 hours when a child is removed from a home for abuse or neglect.
The Children's Law Center will begin the second year of the Lawyers for Children Campaign with a happy hour on October 6.
Please join Children’s Law Center for a Half-Day Attorney Training open to all CCAN (Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect) attorneys on Tuesday, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at DC Superior Court, Room 3300.
Join CLC for a live webinar on September 14th at 12:30pm. CLC's own Tracy Goodman will be presenting on ADHD and special education.
Our 2011 Helping Children Soar Benefit brought hundreds of people to the Kennedy Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on September 21. This year the program focus on CLC's work to build forever families.
Please join us to learn about the law and practice of serving as a GAL, representing the best interests of a child in a custody case.
Please join us Thursday, September 8th to learn about representing parents and caregivers of children with special education needs.
At Sidley Austin, the week of July 18-22 is dedicated to providing hands-on support to those in need. Children's Law Center was selected as one of the primary recipients of the law firm's community service efforts during this week.
Please join us to learn about adoption, guardianship, and custody law and practice with presentations by experienced attorneys from Children’s Law Center and a “View from the Bench” by Magistrate Judge Errol Arthur in the D.C. Superior Court.
I will never forget my clients … in fact, I still have their picture on the wall in my office, because it really helps me to put into perspective my work and the work of the Children’s Law Center.
-Carmen G. McLean
Partner, Jones Day
Member, CLC Board of Directors
CLC Pro Bono attorney