Center for Legal Aid Education

Welcome to the Center for Legal Aid Education


The Center for Legal Aid Education provides continuing education, training and leadership development to equal justice attorneys and staff across the country. Our work is grounded in a deep conviction in the power of the law to protect and advance the rights of people who are low-income or vulnerable and to ensure justice, equality and fairness in the broadest sense. It is further grounded in the belief that in order to deliver on the promise of equal justice, the equal justice delivery system requires highly skilled, knowledgeable and committed advocates.

To that end CLAE's mission is simple but powerful - to provide equal justice advocates, through high quality, accessible continuing education and training, with the tools they need to obtain justice for their clients.

   CLAE Annual Report

Learn more about CLAE's work by downloading a copy of our most recent Annual Report.

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"Simply put, CLAE's Affirmative Litigation training was the best legal training I have ever had. It taught me skills to do this work, revealed strategies for increasing the impact of Legal Aid work, and inspired me to press on with the mission for social change."

- Jason Dodson
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

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Negotiations Skills Training Online


Given the nature of our caseload-driven, crisis-oriented legal services practices, there is no skill as central to our success, and as little understood, as negotiation. Utilizing the Getting to Yes and Getting Past No interest-based negotiations framework, participants in CLAE's Online Negotiation Skills course engage in four sequenced telephonic negotiations over two weeks. Each negotiation practice focuses on a different facet of the interest based negotiation framework.
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