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Children's Law

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Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Which leads us to our first hour entitled Client Counseling and Advocacy: The Role of Race, Class and Culture, which will explore how we can increase our own cultural competency and literacy. And as a result, become better advocates for our clients. This session will be led by Tirien Steinbach, who is the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center and a lecturer at Berkeley Law School. Please join me in welcoming Tirien ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: I'd like to introduce the next panel, who will focus on the overlap between housing and immigration, including housing protections, how immigration status affects eligibility for subsidized housing, and cultural competency issues that arise when working with immigrant clients on housing issues. There are three panelists. Omar Calimbas is a senior staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, which is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: All right. So the last session of the day we're focusing on immigration protections for survivors of domestic violence. And we're going to touch on a number of topics-- asylum, VAWA. You've heard people talking about that throughout the afternoon. U visas and T visas. And we have three panelists who are going to introduce themselves as they speak. Thank you. LISA FRYDMAN: I'm going last because I'm going to then go into the intro slides, ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: All right, everyone. If we can kind of gather back. All right, everyone. So the first two sessions today, what [INAUDIBLE] just did, and then our next session, which is an orientation to domestic violence are really setting the stage for us in working at the intersection of these three issues of housing, domestic violence, and immigration. So we're kind of doing the big picture, and then we're sort of going to narrow down later on towards ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: Thank you so much. That was very informative. I learned a lot. So our next panel is dealing with-- it's very hard to deal with immigration, domestic violence and housing, and not touch a little bit on family law, because it's kind of within the realm of all of those issues that we've been talking about. So our next panelists, Khanh Nguyen and Hongvilay Thongsamouth will be talking about common family law issues that arise when immigrants ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Hi everyone. Welcome back from lunch. I'm really looking forward to this next panel on domestic violence and housing. This session is going to focus on how California laws, the Fair Housing Act, and the Violence Against Women Act protect survivors of domestic violence from denial of housing, help them defend and avoid evictions, and aid survivors in maintaining safe and stable housing. These panelists have prepared a very thorough ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

JONATHAN KORZEN: Thank you, Doug. Can everyone hear me? Good morning. Let's dive right in. We have a lot of ground to cover not only in this panel but throughout the day. We are talking about the internet and how the internet has transformed the adoption world for adoptive parents, for birth parents, and for attorneys. The advantages are compelling. Reaching the exact audience you want to reach, whether they be birth mothers or potential adoptive ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS H. REINIGER: Now moving from the internet, we are totally switching gears and going to talk about marriage between same-sex couples and the implications for adoption, which is, I'm sure you know, a major issue. On our panel, first is Susan Sommer. Susan is the Director of Constitutional Litigation and the Senior Counsel at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. As you may know, it's a national organization for supporting and advocating ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS REINIGER: By the way, and I think Susan alluded to this, but in the handbook there is so much more information that of course, none of the panelists in any of these sessions can fully cover. But I urge you, at your leisure, to review those. Certainly with Susan's presentation there are reprints of some very significant cases and decisions that are really important. We're segueing into a related topic now. And that's surrogacy and assisted ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS H. REINIGER: OK. We're down to the wire here. This is a different format. Brendan and Anne are going to structure this time with the four different fact patterns and I particularly bring your attention-- the in-course handbook, starting on page 455, are the fact patterns. And I think it would help you and make it easier if you look at it, in case you get a little confused or whatever happens. It happens with Brendan all the time. I get confused ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS REINIGER: --interest of moving things along, we're going to pick up our after-lunch half of the program. Thanks for coming back. Hope you had a nice lunch. The first topic this afternoon really has a very different focus, because it's really about foster care termination of parental rights and the reinstatement of parental rights after a court has terminated those rights. And we have two speakers, both of whom have come up from Washington ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2012

DOUGLAS REINIGER: All right. That's enough with the relaxing. Shifting gears, again, now we're moving to inter-country or international adoptions, and immigration issues clearly as it relates to adoption. We've got Michael Goldstein, who is both a social worker and adoptive father of three children, and of course, a lawyer specializing particularly in the international adoptions, although he's done all kinds, 2,500 adoptions. And he and his wife, ...