For the first time, we've put together a handy, ready-to-print guide to our various courses and our Leadership Institute.

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As an organization always seeking to unlock the great promise of strategic collaboration, we are thrilled to announce the genesis of a new partnership, one that we are looking forward to enduring and flourishing for many years to come.

The Center for Legal Aid Education and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) are now working side by side in a way that is sure to be of considerable benefit to the many attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants that together we serve. 

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The Center for Legal Aid Education announces a new partnership with the Mississippi civil justice community to develop a vision and long-range plan for a statewide training capacity. Building on its previous work in Mississippi, which included community lawyering training events and a call-center training process, CLAE will contract with the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) to offer two training programs in the coming year: Basic Lawyering Skills and Fostering High Quality Legal Aid Advocacy to include sessions on professional development and supervision. Funded by the first-ever IOLTA grant specifically designated for training in Mississippi, MCJ will collaborate with the two LSC-funded legal aid providers, the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Program, law school clinics, and other legal advocacy organizations in the state to deliver training programs that will improve skills, build relationships and advocacy networks across organizational lines, and instill a shared understanding of the core values underlying legal aid and equal justice for all.  

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Newer attorneys and law graduiates from more than 20 legal aid programs across Florida came together for 4 days last week in Orlando to experience CLAE's Basic Lawyering Skills Training. These emerging advocates explored a wide range of skill and knowledge areas - interviewing, case analysis, case planning, client counseling, motion practice, negotiation and trial skills. Additional sessions explored how to turn individual cases into vehicles for systemic change and gave participants the opportunity to reflect on their career plans and professional development goals.

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Responding to a request from the New England Legal Services Training Consortium and others around the country, CLAE has developed a new course that offers a wide range of skills essential to the practices of paralegals and legal assistants - both those who handle their own caseloads independently, and those who work as part of litigation teams with attorney partners.

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