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5:00pm EST

National Organization of Client Advocates (NOCA) Board Meeting Meeting Room 2

8:30am EST

MIE New Executive Director Training-Day 1 Meeting Room 5 Train the Trainers-Day 1 Meeting Room 2

5:30pm EST

National Alliance of Indigent Defense Educators (NAIDE) Meeting Meeting Room 16

7:00pm EST

National Organization of Client Advocates (NOCA) Membership Meeting Mt. Vernon Square A

8:30am EST

MIE New Executive Director Training-Day 2 Meeting Room 5

9:00am EST

Train the Trainers-Day 2 Meeting Room 2

9:30am EST

Emerging Leaders: A Path to Leadership in Legal Services Meeting Room 16

2:00pm EST

Cyber Café (sponsored by NLADA Insurance Program) Grand Ballroom Foyer Exhibits Grand Ballroom Foyer Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:45pm EST

Orientation for New Members and First-Time Conference Attendees Mt. Vernon Square A

5:30pm EST

Annual Meeting of Members – Safeguarding Justice in Times of Disaster Response and Recovery: A Panel Discussion Grand Ballroom

7:30pm EST

Welcome Reception Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer Cyber Café (sponsored by NLADA Insurance Program) Grand Ballroom Foyer Exhibits Grand Ballroom Foyer Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EST

Opening Plenary Session Grand Ballroom

9:00am EST

Breakout Session Evaluations TBA

10:00am EST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EST

Civil Caucus Grand Ballroom Client Caucus Congressional Ballroom A Defender Caucus: Pre-Trial Justice: A Discussion about Bail Reform, Risk Assessments, and Race Renaissance Ballroom A

12:00pm EST

Lunch on Your Own See restaurant list in your registration bag

12:45pm EST

Services for Older Americans: An Opportunity for Discussion with the Federal Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services Meeting Room 2 NLADA Latino Advocates Section Meeting and Kincare Meeting Room 16

2:15pm EST

A New Route to Access to Justice: Appointment of Counsel Under the Americans with Disabilities Act Meeting Room 3 Being an Advocate: Community Organizing and Community Lawyering Meeting Room 2 Building a Successful Partnership Between the Board of Directors and Executive Director Renaissance Ballroom West B Medical-Legal Partnership Fundamentals: Benefits of Integrated Care Meeting Room 10-11 Pro Bono Collaborations Between Legal Services and Law Firms: Opportunities to Combat the Unfair Imposition of Fees and Fines Renaissance Ballroom West A Promoting Elder Rights and Maximizing Legal Assistance for Older Adults Meeting Room 5 The New New Thing: Strengthening Communications Capacity for Civil Legal Aid in Your State Congressional Ballroom B Using Data and Technology to Protect Low-Income Populations from Consumer Fraud Meeting Room 4 The New Disability: Homelessness vis a vis Incarceration – An Interactive Reentry Simulation Congressional Ballroom A Annual Supreme Court Review Meeting Room 12 Innovative Solutions in Public Defense: Two Approaches to Quality Representation Meeting Room 13-14 Clearing Criminal Records for Immigrant Clients Meeting Room 15 Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Student Loan Repayment: Understanding Potential Changes and Their Impact Mt. Vernon Square A Talking about What We're Talking about: Low-Income Households in the Age of Black Lives Matter Meeting Room 16 Untangling the Spaghetti Monster: Operational and Strategic Management of Technology in Civil and Criminal Legal Services Mt. Vernon Square B

3:45pm EST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:15pm EST

Building the Tools for Self-Represented Litigants: Law Help Interactive and A2J Author Renaissance Ballroom West A From Process to Product: A Review of the LSC Grantee Data Users Group Process and New Research Being Done with Grantee Activity Report (GAR) Data Mt. Vernon Square A How to Set Up and Run a School-Based Legal Aid Clinic Renaissance Ballroom East Implicit Bias in the Workplace: Managing Skepticism, Belief, and Micro-Aggressions Congressional Ballroom B Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Providing Access to Justice and Building Successful Partnerships Mt. Vernon Square B The Benefits of Rural Legal Aid and What Big Cities Can Learn Meeting Room 2 The Role of Diverse Language Access Advisory Committees in Ensuring Equal Access to State Courts Meeting Room 16 Recruiting & Retaining Successful Client Board Members: The Role of the Executive Director Congressional Ballroom A Defender Listening Session: What Do Clients and Directly Affected Communities Think about Bail Reform? Meeting Room 13-14 The Why and How of Making a Mitigation Film Meeting Room 10-11 State Legislative Funding Roundtable: Increasing Funding in 2018 and Beyond Meeting Room 4 CANCELLED -- Holistic Defense: Intake through Resolution--Best Practices for Cross Practice Collaboration Meeting Room 3 Clearing Criminal Records: Clinics, Community Partnerships, and Using Data to Inform Need Renaissance Ballroom West B Representing Clients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Meeting Room 5

6:00pm EST

Listening Session with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division: Sexual Harassment in Housing Meeting Room 16 The Outcomes Project: A Conversation with the National Center for Access to Justice Mt. Vernon Square A NLADA Client Section Meeting Congressional Ballroom A NLADA Technology Section Meeting Meeting Room 15 Across the Great Chasm: Participating in Community-Led Partnerships to Bridge the Racial Divide (Hosted by the African American Project Directors Association (AAPDA); Beer, Wine, & Light Refreshments) Meeting Room 5

7:00pm EST

Client Reception Congressional Ballroom C

8:00pm EST

NLADA Game Night Congressional Ballroom C

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer Cyber Café (sponsored by NLADA Insurance Program) Grand Ballroom Foyer Exhibits Grand Ballroom Foyer Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EST

Advanced Lessons in Evidence-Based Legal Practice Meeting Room 3 Combatting Sexual Harassment in Housing: Identifying, Addressing, and Reporting Meeting Room 12 Educating Legislators about Legal Aid 2.0 Mt. Vernon Square A Lawyers and Public Libraries: A Story Worth Reading Meeting Room 9 Managing Up, Down, and Sideways in Legal Aid! Meeting Room 2 Providing Disaster Legal Services to Non-Citizens and Other People Ineligible for Services from LSC Congressional Ballroom B The ABA Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid: Are Substantial Revisions Needed? Meeting Room 4 Urban Pro Bono Meets Rural Clients: Remote Services Delivery Models in Action Meeting Room 8 A Call to Speak Truth Powerfully: Part 1 – Understanding Implicit Bias Congressional Ballroom A Looking Back and Moving Forward: Stories and Action Steps from Federally Funded TTA Providers Meeting Room 10-11 Transformational Leadership: How Public Defenders Can Be Leaders in Reforming the Criminal Justice System Meeting Room 13-14 Leading for Fundraising Success: An MIE Seminar for Executive Directors and Other Management Staff Meeting Room 16 Innovative Language Access Policies and Practices at the Local Government Level Meeting Room 5 Bad Behaviors: Unprofessional Conduct by Outside Actors in Civil Legal Aid and Public Defense Renaissance Ballroom East Ending Debtor's Prison for Kids: Challenging the High Cost of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Justice System Mt. Vernon Square B Housing, Not Handcuffs: Criminalization of Homelessness, Constructive Alternatives, Protecting the Human Rights of Homeless Persons Meeting Room 15

9:00am EST

Breakout Session Evaluations TBA

10:00am EST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EST

Addressing the Legal Needs of Homeless Youth Meeting Room 2 Advocacy Through a Regional Medical-Legal Partnership Collaborative Meeting Room 12 Big Ideas: The Future of Pro Bono Meeting Room 4 Building Relationships with Reporters and Lawmakers to Bolster Local Press Coverage Meeting Room 5 Combatting Inequitable and Unconstitutional Imposition and Enforcement of Court Fines and Fees: Advocacy Opportunities for LSC-Funded Programs Mt. Vernon Square B Empowering Immigrant Clients to Protect Themselves, Their Families, and Our Communities Meeting Room 3 Essential Staff May Soon Retire: What Do We Do to Preserve Their Knowledge? Meeting Room 16 Less Than Honorable: The Legal Aid Response to the Military Discharge Crisis Mt. Vernon Square A Making Sense of Medicaid, Medicare, and HIPAA Congressional Ballroom A Blending the Practices of Law & Social Work for a Better Criminal Defense System Meeting Room 10-11 Parole, Probation & Supervised Release: The Other Loss of Liberty Meeting Room 13-14 Advancing Your Work Through Federal Funding: Disaster Response & Recovery Meeting Room 15 Beyond Plain Language: Building Better Self-Help Meeting Room 9 Collaboration in Technology Projects Congressional Ballroom B

12:05pm EST

NLADA Awards Luncheon Grand Ballroom

2:30pm EST

A Fresh Approach to Community Lawyering: Lessons Learned Meeting Room 2 ABA Free Legal Answers: How to Integrate It Meeting Room 5 GIS for Justice: Using a Tool from Outside the Lawyer's Toolbox Meeting Room 9 In It to Win It: Florida's Statewide Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative Meeting Room 3 Look Before Your Leap: Machine Translation and Legal Services Providers Meeting Room 8 LSC Compliance Oversight: What Every Grantee Should Know about Recent Regulatory Changes and Common Compliance Concerns Congressional Ballroom B Pro Bono Innovation Fund: Pro Bono That Works for Clients and Communities Meeting Room 16 Recent Developments in Immigration Law, Policy, and Enforcement Meeting Room 4 The Importance of Delivering Trauma-Informed Civil Legal Services to Clients in Crisis Meeting Room 12 Making Rights Real: Hot Topics in Housing Congressional Ballroom A A Primer on Public Defender Advocacy: How, What & Why Meeting Room 10-11 The Right to Counsel National Campaign: Charting the Path to Change Meeting Room 13-14 Advancing Your Work Through Federal Funding: Programs for Reentry, Veterans, and Victims of Crime Mt. Vernon Square B Clean Slate: The Future of Sealing Will Be Automated Meeting Room 15 Due Process and Ethics in an Age of Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, and Automation -- A Community Discussion Mt. Vernon Square A

4:00pm EST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:15pm EST

A Year in the Life of a Victim: A Case Study in Providing Holistic Legal Services Congressional Ballroom B Alternative Schools: A Needed Hand Up, or Second Class Education for Students of Color? Meeting Room 8 Building the Culture and Practice of Strategic Advocacy in Civil Legal Aid: Advice from the Field Mt. Vernon Square A Delivering Innovative and Inclusive Legal Services for Transgender Clients Meeting Room 3 Disaster Preparedness and Response: Assisting Homeowners and Native American Tribes before and after Disaster Strikes Meeting Room 9 How You Can Leverage Online Forms to Enhance Your Staff and Pro Bono Attorneys' Work: Barriers and Models Meeting Room 4 Language Access for LEP Immigrants Meeting Room 2 MIE Roundtable for Legal Services Executive Directors and Managers Meeting Room 16 Stronger on the Other Side: Surviving and Thriving during Lean Times Mt. Vernon Square B What We Can Learn for the Future from Legal Aid History Meeting Room 12 A Call to Speak Truth Powerfully: Part 2 – Speaking Truth to Power Congressional Ballroom A Re-Imagining Holistic Defense for Women in North Tulsa Meeting Room 10-11 Statewide Reform in a Locally Controlled System: The Example of New York Meeting Room 13-14 Holistic Programming: Bringing Together Civil Legal Aid, Criminal Defense, and Community Agencies for Superior Representation and Services Meeting Room 5 Holistic Representation for Immigrant Children Meeting Room 15

6:00pm EST

NLADA Farmworkers Section Meeting Mt. Vernon Square A

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer Cyber Café (sponsored by NLADA Insurance Program) Grand Ballroom Foyer Exhibits Grand Ballroom Foyer Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EST

All Hands on Deck: Taking a Holistic Approach to the Complex Legal Problems of Housing Insecurity and Displacement Meeting Room 12-13-14 LSC and the Client Voice Congressional Ballroom A First Defense Upon Arrest: Protecting Rights, Saving Costs, Reducing Violence Meeting Room 8-9 Resentencing – New Life for Lifers Meeting Room 10-11

9:00am EST

Breakout Session Evaluations TBA

10:00am EST

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EST

Hot Topics in Civil Legal Aid Renaissance Ballroom West Beyond Legal Aid: Developing Specialized Support for Clients’ Unmet Needs Congressional Ballroom A Expanding Our Reach: Integrating Direct Representation and Impact Litigation Meeting Room 12-13-14 Working with Clients with Communication Disabilities Meeting Room 8-9