Civil Sessions

• A Practical, Proactive Strategy for Results-Focused Self-Evaluation for Legal Aid Programs: The Path Toward Improved Outcomes

• A Prelude to a National Celebration of Pro Bono

• Access to Justice for Immigrants: The LSC Alien Restrictions, More Flexible than Most People Think

• Achieving Greatest Possible Benefits and Systemic Solutions Through Significant Cases

• Advocating for the Elderly and Vulnerable: Protection v. Protectionism

• Being an Agent of Positive Change: The LSC Inspector General's Mission

• Bringing Back the Dads: Why Non-Custodial Fathers in Child Welfare Proceedings Need Legal Representation

• Budget Advocacy -- Building a Coalition of Legal Services and Clients for Budget Justice

• Building Volunteer Leadership for Resource Development

• Cash, Food & Healthcare for Immigrant Victims of DV, Human Trafficing & Other Serious Crimes

• Change and Justice: The State and National Early Care and Education Agenda

• Client Use of Technology 2008 Updates

• Courts Responding to the Foreclosure Crisis: Experience with Court Created Diversion Programs--Are they part of a Solution?

• Creating Change and Achieving Justice by Democratizing Access to Legal and Policy Resources for Advocates for Clients with HIV

• Creating Change and Achieving Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence

• Cross-Cultural Community Recovery and Democracy-Building: A Clinical Legal Education Partnership Model

• Employment Rights of Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors

• Ethics in a Legal Services Context

• Federal Funding Roundtable

• From Walk to the Hill to Law School for Legislators: Creating Change and Achieving Justice by Reaching out to State Lawmakers

• Fugitive? Felon? - Recovering Benefits for Disabled, Retired & Poor Americans

• Hot Topics in Legal Aid

• Immigrants' Access to Safety-Net Benefits: Kaplan Court Settlement and Steps to Expand Access

• Immigrants Raids and Collaboration between the Immigrant Community and the Defense Bar

• Implications and Implementation of the ABA Standards of Practice for Lawyers Representing Victims of DV, SA, and St in CPO Case

• Innovations in Civil Legal Services

• Innovations in Online Intake

• Innovations in Pro Se Litigation Tools

• Innovative Approaches to Providing Legal Assistance to the Homeless: Effective Use of Volunteer Attorneys

• Innovative, Non-Litigation Approaches to Affordable Housing Preservation for Vulnerable Populations

• Language Access in Administrative Hearings: Best Practices and Advocacy Strategies

• Legal Assistance to Low-Income Victims of Major Disasters

• LSC Quality Initiative: Achieving Justice with Private Attorney Involvement

• LSC Updates

• Making the Fair Hearing Fairer: The Legacy of Goldberg v. Kelly

• Medical-Legal Partnership 101: How to Bring Legal Aid into the Health Care Setting

• Medical-Legal Partnership 201: Building Networks, Bridging Populations

• MIE Roundtable for Legal Services Executive Directors and Managers

• Military Legal Assistance Free Resources for Clients with a Military Connection

• Overcoming Sovereign Immunity Defenses by the State in ADA and Rehabilitation Act Cases

• Personal Reflections on Quality in Civil Legal Aid

• Powerful,Cost-Effective Multidisciplinary Team Advocacy:What Do Connecticut & A Pittsburgh Child Advocacy Agency Have In Common?

• Privatization and Public Benefits: Recent Developments and Advocacy

• Pro Bono by the Numbers

• Protecting Government Benefits Families from Illegal Collection Practices by Treasurer Tax Collectors

• Reports from Three Access to Justice Commissions

• Restoring Human Rights as the Foundation of our System of Government

• Serving Limited English Proficient (LEP) and/or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Victims of Domestic Violence

• State Funding Roundtable--Preparing for 2009 and Beyond

• Tapping into the Law School Market: Building Partnerships and Levering Resources

• Technology Planning 101: Developing Service-Based Plans for Programs and State Networks

• The Art of Partnering

• The Right to a Lawyer in Civil Cases: A Powerful Tool to Combat the Feminization of Poverty

• The Rising Tide of Consumer Bankruptcy Filings: Creating a Pro Se Hlp Desk Model that Really Works

• The Role of the Bar in Advancing the Right of Low-Income Clients to High-Quality Education that Really Works

• The School to Prison Pipeline -- How Race, Ethnicity and Language Factors in Discipline and Assignment Affect Student Success

• The use of "Frames" in Race Equity advocacy

• There's One Born Every Minute: Combating Consumer Scams In & Out of Court in a Sluggish Economy

• Using Fair Housing Laws as Advocacy Tool for Legal Services Clients

• Using Multimedia Content to Improve Web-Based Delivery of Legal Services

• Visioning for the Future of Pro Bono

• Who Am I?: Proving Identity in the Post 9/11 World

• Youth Advocacy - It Works!

Defender Sessions

• A Call to Action: the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit

• Assuring Quality Representation in Your Assigned Counsel System

• Changing Juvenile Courts, Extending/Expanding Constitutional Rights to Children

• Child Abuse - Short Falls, the Shifting Battlefield: "Retinal hemorrhages and other Fairy Tales"

• Correctional Mental Health and the Mentally Ill Offender

• Eyewitness Identification Litigation: A New Legal Architecture

• Hottest (and Worst) Legislative Trends

• Improving Indigent Defense by Judicial Fiat

• Lessons from Cook County: How the Nation’s Largest Defender Office is Transforming the Team Concept Through Multi- Disciplinary Training

• Opportunities to Improve Forensic Evidence and the new Forensics Advocacy Network

• Providing Truly Effective Representation to Immigrant Defendants: Addressing the Immigration Consequences of Criminal Cases

• Public Defense in Misdemeanor Cases

• Rothgery and the Right to Counsel: Using a Collaborative Process to Change Court-Appointment Procedures

• Securing Racial Justice Policy Reforms -- Ideas from the COD Network

• Supreme Court Review: Creating Change, Achieving Justice

• The Bronx Freedom Fund: A Model Bail Fund

• The costs of a criminal conviction: the growing use of legal financial obligations

• Using Strategic Communications for the Protection of Clients during Times of Institutional Crisis: The Cook County [Chicago] Ex

• Using the New Juvenile Ten Principles to Train, Reform

General Sessions

• Designing A Presentation In The Age Of The Short Attention Span

• Escalating Student Loan Debt of Attorneys: Where is the Relief?

• Generation New Leader: Law Schools and Fellowship Programs Training Lawyers as Leaders

• Language Access and Technology: Reaching Limited English Proficient Clients with Technology Resources

• Language access obligations of state court systems and advocacy strategies to promote compliance

• Women In Leadership: Training, Mentoring, Leading for Defenders and Civil Legal Aid Programs