Staying True to Your Roots 2020

 Registration is closed for this event
Registration is now closed. Payments via check and card will be accepted at the door. Join your colleagues and friends for the National Lawyers Guild’s 8th Annual Staying True to Your Roots program, a day of inspiring and useful continuing legal education taught by leading advocates in the fields of social justice lawyering and legal work. On-site lunch is for $15. Law students can attend for free but will be asked to pay for their lunches.

Register by January 9, 2020 for up to 20% off standard rates

 

  Standard Rate Early Bird Rate
Member of the NLG or co-sponsoring organization

$180 for day

or

$40 per hour

$144 per day

or

$32 per hour

Non-Member

$290 for day

or

$60 per hour

$232 for day

or

$48 per hour

 

8:30am | Registration

9:00 - 9:45am | Mindfulness and Meditation Training
Presented by Demarris Evans.
This panel will provide 45 minutes of general CLE credit.


9:50 - 11:50am | Race, Gender, and Class: Crossover Issues in Employment, Immigration, and Criminal Defense Law
This interactive panel integrates helpful immigrant protection, and anti-discrimination laws into a facilitated discussion of scenarios involving representation or potential representation of groups of workers (including immigrant workers), retaliation against workers, including accusations with potential criminal consequences. This panel features Adriana Melgoza (Watsonville Law Center), Blanca Banuelos (California Rural Legal Assistance), Holly Cooper (UC Davis Immigration Clinic), Rocio Avila (National Domestic Workers Alliance).
This panel provides CLE credits for one hour of ethics and one hour of elimination of bias.

11:50am - 12:20pm | Lunch

12:20 - 1:50pm | Expanding Voting Rights in 2020 and Beyond
Come see panelists from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Fair Vote, Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Asian Law Caucus (AAAJ-ALC), and the Law Offices of Norton Tooby discuss voting rights topics pertinent to the 2020 election. These include such issues as ensuring election day vote integrity to reforming how we vote and ensuring that progressive voting power is not diluted.
This panel will provide one hour and 30 minutes of general CLE credit.

1:55 - 3:25pm | Advocating for Unhoused People in the East Bay
Panelists from the East Bay Community Law Center, Siegel, Yee, Brunner & Mehta, “Where do we go?” Berkeley, the East Oakland Collective, and the Village, as well as the Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute, will discuss legal and non-legal strategies for protecting the rights of our unhoused neighbors in the East Bay and beyond. Come hear about victories, lessons, and what future advocacy looks like.
This panel will provide one hour and 30 minutes of general CLE credit.

3:30 - 4:30pm | Effectively Managing Stress and Occupational Burnout

Attorney and Coach Fernando Flores (Law Offices of Amy Oppenheimer, Founder of iMater Now) will discuss how attorneys can manage stress and prevent burnout in order to maintain balance and perform at high levels in their practice.
This panel will provide 1 hour of CLE credit for competency.

Happy Hour to Follow
111 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105

*This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association, the Alameda County Bar Association, the ACLU of Northern California, the Northern California of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, California Employment Lawyers Association, the Charles Houston Bar Association, Equal Justice Society,  Iranian American Bar Association, Legal Aid Association of California, the Minority Bar Coalition, the National Immigration Project, Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Association CABAL, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, and the Social Justice Collaborative.

When
January 16th, 2020 from  8:30 AM to  4:30 PM
Location
Practising Law Institute
685 Market Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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Registration Fee
Regular Prices
All day $290.00
Mindfulness & Meditation Training $45.00
Race, Gender, and Class: Crossover Issues in Employment, Immigration, and Criminal Defense Law $120.00
Expanding Voting Rights in 2020 and Beyond $90.00
Advocating for Unhoused People in the East Bay $90.00
Effectively Managing Stress and Occupational Burnout $60.00
Members & Co-sponsoring Organizations Standard Prices
All Day $180.00
Mindfulness & Meditation Training $30.00
Race, Gender, and Class: Crossover Issues in Employment, Immigration, and Criminal Defense Law $80.00
Expanding Voting Rights in 2020 and Beyond $60.00
Advocating for Unhoused People in the East Bay $60.00
Effectively Managing Stress and Occupational Burnout $40.00
Law Student $0.00
Lunch Order
Vegetarian Sandwich $15.00
Caprese Sandwich $15.00
Vegan Salad $15.00