Date: 26 May 2015
Time: 4-6pm
Venue: House 39, Trinity College, Dublin 2
The TCD School of Law and the Irish Clinical legal Education Association are holding a workshop entitled "Representing Vulnerable Clients - Perspectives and Strategies from the U.S."
The aim of the workshop is to share the best practices and perspectives from legal practitioners in the United States in working around the challenges in helping clients who have a disability, are minors, are from different cultures, have different sexual orientations and gender identities, are non-English speakers and/or are victims of trauma or abuse. Obstacles such as working through an interpreter, building confidence in relationships of difference between the client and lawyer, empowering more vulnerable clients and maintaining their dignity, and counselling children and clients under a mental disability. Important ethical guidelines will be examined and associative secondary trauma issues which often greatly affect those representing trauma survivors will also be looked at.
The facilitators include Prof. Joel Newman Director, and Melissa Swain, Associate Director of the Health Rights Clinic at the University of Miami, School of Law.
Click here to read more about the legal clinics provided by the students at the University of Miami, School of Law.
Click here to register by 20 May 2015.