Welcome to the Center for Legal Aid Education
The Center for Legal Aid Education provides continuing education and training 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.
 2008 Annual Report
We're pleased to share the highlights of an incredibly busy year through our 2008 Annual Report. For stories from Florida, South Carolina, Missouri, New England and elsewhere, and a wider context in which to better understand what CLAE has to offer, simply click here to download your copy now!
Upcoming Courses and Events
Check Out Our Courses Booklet
You can have any of the courses you see here delivered just for your own legal services program, state or region. Click here to review our course booklet, including sample agendas, course descriptions, information about the course objectives, intended audience and the learning resources used. We can deliver the course for you as is, or modify it to meet your objectives. Don't see what you're looking for? We can help you design and deliver the training you need. Either way, contact us today to discuss your training priorities.
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We are pleased to announce that CLAE now has a double-presence on Facebook - as an 'organization' and as a 'group.' In both cases, we invite you to join us and help make these pages a lively and productive success. You'll have full access to training announcements and updates, a calendar of upcoming events, photo albums, discussion forums and more - all in a welcoming and non-obtrusive environment where you can help set the agenda. To join, simply click here to join our 'organization' and here to join our 'group.' Alternatively, just search in Facebook for 'Center for Legal Aid Education.' For further information, click here.
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"The degree of preparation, knowledge and insight is evident in the quality training, resources and connections. And that's what keeps me coming back."
- Peter Coulumbe
Greater Boston Legal Services
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Community Lawyering
CLAE's Community Lawyering training explores the powerful relationship between traditional lawyering and other advocacy approaches when combined in a strategically designed multi-faceted advocacy campaign. Participants learn the essential skills and disciplines needed to work effectively with community partners -- relational organizing techniques, communications strategy (including media campaigns and message framing), power mapping and stakeholder analysis, transactional lawyering and institution building, and grassroots campaign development and planning. In these days when access to effective judicial remedies is increasingly limited, it is more essential than ever to combine legal approaches with non-legal advocacy strategies. This course gives advocates the vision and the path to do so successfully.
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