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Thursday January 28
2016
 Abusive Use of Technology: Strategies for Client Advocacy and Empowerment in Domestic Violence Cases

In 2014, the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s study found more than 97% of responding direct service providers reported working with intimate partner violence survivors who had been harassed, monitored, or threatened through technological means. The session will explore how technology is misused by abusers, including reading text messages and emails, accessing online accounts, remotely listening to telephone calls, and GPS surveillance.  The faculty will discuss the state laws that protect survivors against abusive use of technology, such as harassment, stalking, unlawful surveillance, as well as federal laws. The faculty will also examine strategies for addressing nonconsensual pornography, commonly known as revenge porn. Attendees will learn how to spot signs that technology is a component in a client’s abuse, develop techniques for all stages of client advocacy, and empower clients to manage the risks associated with technological abuse and surveillance.

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  • When
    Thursday, January 28, 2016
    3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 1.50
    Areas of Professional Practice: 0.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Technology
    Family
  • Price: $120

About the Faculty

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    Amanda Levendowski (Speaker)

    Ms. Levendowski is an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where her practice focuses on litigation and counseling in copyright, trademark, privacy, and Internet law matters. She has worked with a range of clients, from established leaders in the media, social networking, and technology industries to early stage start-ups. In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Levendowski is a frequent speaker and writer on legal issues at the intersection of privacy and technology. Before joining Kirkland, she worked as a student clinician with the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.
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    Genna Teitelbaum (Speaker)

    Genna is the Supervising Attorney in the Family Law/Domestic Violence Unit at Staten Island Legal Services (SILS), where she manages an interdisciplinary team of attorneys, a paralegal and a social worker. For more than seven years, Genna has been serving survivors of domestic violence by representing them in court on cases regarding orders of protection, divorce, custody, visitation, child support, as well as child protective cases and state central register clearances. Before joining SILS, Genna served as a legal fellow at the Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center. Genna earned her A.B. from Brown University and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar and an editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. During law school, Genna was an intern at The New York Center for Law And Justice (a nonprofit serving indigent Deaf New Yorkers), Sanctuary for Families and the Tshwaranang Legal iii Advocacy Centre, a South African NGO addressing issues of violence against women. Genna is a veteran instructor at JLC and other forums covering topics such as attorney-social worker collaboration, matrimonial practice, and addressing abusive use of technology in domestic violence cases. Genna has been a student of American Sign Language and an admirer of the Deaf community for more than a decade. She has represented LSNYC on the Deaf Justice Coalition (DJC) for more than five years and is currently spearheading DJC’s effort to survey the successes and failures of the city’s new Text-to-911 program. Genna has lead or moderated several trainings at the nexus of legal services and the Deaf community including JLC’s Effective Representation of Deaf Clients and Guidelines for Working with ASL Interpreting Teams and a workshop at the National Action Network’s House of Justice Deaf Club on the rights of Deaf immigrants.