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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