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 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 Thursday, September 8th to learn about representing parents and caregivers of children with special education needs.
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.
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.
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 Wednesday, May 4th to learn about representing parents and caregivers of children with special education needs.
Children's Law Center will be offering an Attorney Training to all attorneys on the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN) GAL panel on Friday, April 8, 2011 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
Please join us Tuesday, February 1st to learn about the law and practice of serving as a GAL, representing the best interests of a child in the custody case.
Please join us to learn about the nuts and bolts of guardianship including when guardianship is the best option, how to advise clients, how to prepare and file the guardianship motion, common legal issues, guardianship subsidy, litigating a contested guardianship, case law, what to do when a guardianship threatens to disrupt, and changes made by the new guardianship law.
Join us to learn more about representing parents and caregivers of children with special education needs.
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