'Déjà Vu All Over Again': Public Interest Practice Survives Hard Times

Whether you are a new or seasoned private practitioner, a public interest attorney, or a pro bono attorney, this course focuses on issues that are currently hot topics throughout the legal community!

Delivering public interest law to poor and disadvantaged citizens is a job that is largely undertaken by the more than thirty public interest law organizations in the Philadelphia area, as well as the numerous volunteer pro bono attorneys. Public Interest Law Day is designed to assist these practitioners and their colleagues throughout Pennsylvania in continuing to provide high-quality legal services to this under-served population. In addition to attorneys in public interest practice, this course will be of interest to pro bono practitioners and private practice attorneys who are interested in learning more about public interest law and other timely issues affecting the pro bono community.

Planned by public interest lawyers for public interest lawyers, this program focuses on issues that are currently hot topics in the practice of public interest law.

Why Attend

• Join colleagues from Philadelphia-area public interest law organizations
• Learn how you can help to provide high-quality legal services to all clients
• Great for attorneys who want to learn about public interest law
• Focus on current hot topics
• Earn your ethics credit
  

Faculty:

Hon. Pamela Pryor Dembe
President Judge, Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District
Hon. Annette Rizzo
Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District
Judith A. Bernstein-Baker, Esq.
HIAS & Council Migration Services
Karen C. Buck, Esq.
Senior LAW Center
Eileen Carroll, Esq.
Legal Clinic for the Disabled
Liz Chacko, Esq.
Friends of Farmworkers, Inc.
Amara S. Chaudhry, Esq.
Council on American-Islamic Relations Pennsylvania
Jennifer R. Clarke, Esq.
Public Interest Law Center
Jonathan H. Feinberg, Esq.
Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg
Lawrence S. Felzer, Esq.
SeniorLAW Center
Anne E. Fisher, Esq.
Defender Association of Philadelphia
Michael Froehlich, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Terry L. Fromson, Esq.
Women's Law Project
Amy E. Hirsch, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Michael Hollander, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Sara E. Jacobson, Esq.
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Harold Jordan
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Kates, Esq.
Office of Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez
David Lapp, Esq.
Education Law Center
Shenu Lawrence-Gupta, Esq.
Defender Association of Philadelphia
Veronica 'Niki' Ludt, Esq.
Face to Face Legal Center
Monique Luse, Esq.
Juvenile Law Center,
Katherine M. Manderino, Esq.
InterCommunity Action, Inc.
Lynn A. Marks, Esq.
Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts
Gerald A. McHugh, Jr., Esq.
Raynes McCarty
Maura McInerney, Esq.
Education Law Center
Rhonda McKitten, Esq.
Defenders Association of Philadelphia
Laval S. Miller-Wilson, Esq.
PA Health Law Project
Linda Peyton, Esq.
Legal Clinic for the Disabled
Rasheedah Phillips, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Morgan Plant, Esq.
Morgan Plant & Associates
John Pollack, Esq.
ABA Section of Litigation Civil Right to Counsel Fellow Public Justice Center
Mary Catherine Roper, Esq.
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania
Cindy Rosenthal, Esq.
Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Inc.
Louis S. Rulli, Esq.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Beth Shapiro, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Thu Tran, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Rebecca Vallas, Esq.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
David M. Walker, Esq.
Law Offices of David M. Walker
Philippe Weisz, Esq.
HIAS Pennsylvania