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  DC Pro Bono Week: Medical-Legal Partnership Site Visit 2018

  The last person that a parent expects to see at the pediatrician’s office is a lawyer. However, medical-legal partnerships help families obtain the legal services…

• Resource Fact Sheets

  Changes to the Law on Expert Witnesses

  In 2016, the D.C. Court of Appeals issued Motorola Inc. v. Murray, changing the legal standard in D.C. for qualifying expert witnesses. This fact sheet…

• Resource Practice Kits

  Practice Kit 06, Education Toolkit

  Revised September 2018. This practice kit contains school contact information, calendars, enrollment and stability information for DC and Prince George’s County schools. There are also chapters…

• Resource Practice Kits

  Practice Kit 09, Post-Secondary Education

  Revised July 2018. This practice kit developed for CCAN attorneys identifies some of the primary challenges for students exiting the neglect system and attempting to…

• Resource Training Manuals

  Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training Manual

  Below you will find Children’s Law Center’s comprehensive Special Education Training Manual, broken up into its component tabs. Please note: Identifying information included in any…

• Resource Training Presentations & Videos

  Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training Videos

  Even by conservative estimates, more than 12,000 children in DC have disabilities that require special education accommodations. Many special education cases come to Children’s Law Center…

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  Check List: Special Education

  A check list for proposed next steps in a Special Education case.

• Resource Training Presentations & Videos

  Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training PowerPoint

  A series of PowerPoint presentations on topics related to special education representation in the District.Part One: What is Special EducationWhat is a Disability?Overview of Healthy…