Seminar Number
066294
CLE
Hours
6 CLE Hours including 1 Ethics Hour, 1 Professionalism Hour and 3 Trial Practice Hours
Recorded April 19, 2006
Presiding:
Michelle R. Barclay, Co-Chair, Child Placement Project, Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta
Patricia McCann, Co-Chair, Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta
Hon. P. Harris Hines, Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta
Nuts and Bolts of Juvenile Law and Practice in Child Deprivation Cases
This session will involve using specific case scenarios to teach state and federal child welfare law from both a child’s attorney and a parent’s attorney perspective; various roles with the cases, including relationship with CASA; overview of juvenile court process and trial skills; and a very brief description of public benefits.
Karen B. Baynes, Associate Director, The Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of
Georgia, Athens; former Juvenile Court Judge of Fulton County, Atlanta
Mary D. Hermann, Child Advocate Attorney, DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center, Decatur
Many children with disabilities have needs, which must be met in order to have educational success. To ensure that schools meet those needs, several federal laws give children and their parents’ specific rights.
Craig L. Goodmark, Attorney, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta
Jennifer Renne, Staff Attorney, ABA Center on
Children and the Law, National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, Washington, DC