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Tuesday March 28
2017
 Defending your Clients Against Mental Illness Allegations in Article 10 Cases

This training explores defending clients in Article 10 cases alleging mental illness.  We will briefly review statutory and case law regarding when mental illness constitutes neglect.  We will discuss ethical issues that arise in working with clients who have been diagnosed with mental illness.  The training will also discuss issues related to the confidentiality of medical records that arise in these cases.  We will look at how an expert can aid in your defense and examine the American Psychological Association’s guidelines on how to conduct appropriate forensic examinations in child welfare cases and discuss how to use these guidelines to cross examine mental health experts. Finally, we will discuss how to prepare your client for a Mental Health Examination. 

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  • When
    Tuesday, March 28, 2017
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 2.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 0.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Julia Hernandez (Speaker)

    Julia is a graduate of CUNY Law School where she participated in the Immigrant and Non-Citizen's Rights Clinic and the Suspension Representation Project. Prior to joining the Family Defense Practice, Julia worked with non-citizens as they fought deportation in U.S. Immigration Court.
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    Sarah Lorr (Speaker)

    Sarah joined the Family Defense Practice in June 2014. Before joining BDS, Sarah was an associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler where she worked on complex civil matters, including the representation of victims of torture at Abu Graib prison in Iraq in litigation against a private contractor. Sarah served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Joan N. Ericksen of the United States District of Minnesota and the Hon. Boyce F. Martin of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sarah received her Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 2010.
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    Kristal Padolina (Speaker)

    Kristal Padolina joined the Family Defense Practice at BDS in October 2013. Kristal graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2004 with a B.A. in Political Science and from Hofstra University School of Law in 2009. While in law school, she worked at the Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence and mediated PINS (persons in need of supervision) cases between youth and their families for Family and Children's Services and for Long Beach Reach Inc. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Prior to working for BDS, Kristal worked for the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) representing the city as an Agency Attorney in child neglect and abuse proceedings. Her experience at ACS gave her invaluable insight into New York's child welfare system and she is excited to be able to directly work with and advocate for parents who are faced with Family Court intervention in their lives.
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    Ambika Panday (Speaker)

    Ambika joined the Family Defense Practice in October 2013. Before coming to BDS, Ambika defended low-income New Yorkers in consumer debt collection, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and identity theft cases and was the Assistant Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Financial Clinic, a NYC-based non- profit organization focused on issues of financial security. Ambika started her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), where she led an initiative to forge a medical-legal partnership between the Welfare Law Unit at GBLS and Massachusetts General Hospital. Ambika received her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 2007.
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    Clara Presler (Speaker)

    Clara graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2012. Before joining the Bronx Defenders, Clara was a law clerk to the Honorable Sarah Netburn in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. At Michigan, Clara was a Dean's Public Service Fellow, an editor for the Journal of Law Reform, and a member of the Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic, which brought criminal appeals on behalf of indigent defendants. During law school, Clara was an intern at the Bronx Defenders, Family Defense Practice; South Brooklyn Legal Services, HIV Project; and the AIRE Centre, an asylum and immigration litigation group in London. Prior to law school, Clara was a Senior Associate at Human Rights Watch, HIV/AIDS Division and a Clinton Fellow at the Centre for Social Research, a women's rights organization in Delhi, India. Clara received a B.A. in History from Carleton College in 2004. She is fluent in Spanish.
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    Erin Miles (Speaker)

    Attorney at the Bronx Defenders.