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Thursday June 18
2020
 Ethical Duties Toward Prospective or Current Clients Who Are Minors or Adults With Diminished Capacity

This is an ethics CLE training aimed at civil legal service providers. Note that examples and case studies are drawn from housing and immigration practice. The training will cover ethical considerations when a prospective minor or an adult with diminished seeks out legal representation, and the ethical duties towards the client in the  cope of full representation in a legal matter. Case handlers will be provided with ethics rules for reference, presented with best practices, and real fact patterns from practitioners. Participants will apply material learned to two case studies from NYSBA ethics committee. Finally, Participants will be provided with models for assisting clients in making informed decisions about legal matters.

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  • When
    Thursday, June 18, 2020
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 2.00
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Ethics
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Bianca Cappellini (Speaker)

    Bianca Cappellini – Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Advocacy Project – Bronx Legal Services Bianca (she/her/they) practiced in the Housing Unit and most recently joined the Disability Advocacy Project in the Bronx. A graduate of CUNY School of Law, Bianca has practiced public benefits law, health law. Prior to law school she was a paralegal and project manager at CBOs working on federal grants.
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    Rachel Gerson (Speaker)

    Rachel Gerson is the Director of Guardianship & Health Care Advocacy at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP). She joined MHP as a staff attorney in 2014 and began supervising MHP’s health care advocacy work in 2017. Her work currently focuses on guaranteeing access to health care through Medicaid for low-income New Yorkers with mental health concerns. She also advises adults who have legal guardians about their options for removing guardians who are abusive or neglectful, serves as Court-appointed evaluator in Article 81 guardianship proceedings, and helps clients execute advance directives. Rachel graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Public Service Scholar.
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    Sara Smith (Speaker)

    Sara (she/her), has been an attorney in the UAC portion of the Housing Unit at Bronx Legal Services since 2015 and is now a Deputy Director. Prior to joining Bronx Legal Services, Sara was a judicial law clerk from 2014-2015. Sara holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University and a J.D. from Seton Hall Law School.
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    Nelson Mar (Speaker)

    Nelson Mar is a senior staff attorney at Bronx Legal Services where he has worked for the last twenty one years. His practice includes Education Law with prior experience in Social Security Disability, labor/employment and community economic development. Nelson is also the coordinator for the Legal Services NYC’s citywide Education Law Task Force and previously the chair of the Education Law Committee with the New York County Lawyer’s Association (NYCLA). Nelson is a member of the Mayor’s School Safety Community Partnership Committee and previously a subcommittee member of Mayor de Blasio’s School Climate Leadership Team which produced significant recommendations on improving school climate in New York City’s public schools.
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    Alena Aguilar (Speaker)

    Alena Aguilar a native Bronxite, has a B.A. from Georgia State University in Sociology and graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2014. Prior to joining Bronx Legal Services she worked at the Legal Aid of Society in the Bronx Criminal Defense Practice as a Forensic Social Worker.