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Friday March 3
2017
 Ensuring Language Access 2017

This training is open only to LSNYC staff. 

The training covers our internal language access policy, the basic rights of our clients’ to language access and advocacy strategies to address language barriers, how and when to obtain an interpreter or translator, and some basic skills for working with interpreters and LEP clients.

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  • When
    Friday, March 3, 2017
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Location
    Brooklyn Legal Services - Restoration Plaza
    1360 Fulton St., Suite 310
    Brooklyn, NY 11216
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 0.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Language Access
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Veronica Cook (Speaker)

    Veronica J. Cook is the Deputy Project Director at Queens Legal Services, a program of Legal Services NYC (LSNYC). Veronica first joined LSNYC in 2014 as a housing attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services, then held the position of senior staff attorney in LSNYC’s Civil Rights Justice Initiative before moving to the Queens office as Director of Litigation. She was promoted to the position of Deputy Director in 2023. Prior to joining LSNYC, Veronica held several other legal positions, including as a federal district court clerk and an associate attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she was involved in fair housing and economic justice work. She has also worked as a consultant and presenter on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and as a peer reviewer for other civil legal services providers. Veronica received her A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 2007, cum laude.
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    christine clarke (Speaker)

    https://www.legalservicesnyc.org/people/christine-clarke/ Christine Clarke (she, her) is Chief of Litigation and Advocacy at Legal Services NYC. In this role, she leads LSNYC?s strategic advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers, including by initiating and overseeing high impact and complex civil litigation and working closely with advocates and community groups to engage in thoughtful and cutting-edge policy advocacy. Christine comes most recently from Planned Parenthood Federation of America?s Public Policy Litigation & Law Department, where she represented Planned Parenthood affiliates in litigation around the country, challenging abortion bans and other threats to reproductive healthcare access and fighting for the right of all people to make their own decisions about their bodies, lives, and futures. She also previously served as LSNYC?s Director of the Civil Rights Justice Initiative, where she spearheaded LSNYC?s citywide civil rights litigation and advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers, including by working with community-based organizations and other LSNYC advocates on lawsuits against government agencies ?including the New York City Police Department, NYC?s Human Resource Administration and the NYC Housing Authority?that resulted in critical changes to policies and procedures. She has previously worked in private practice as an employee-side employment lawyer working on wage and hour and anti-discrimination litigation. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Yale Law School.