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Tuesday May 23
2017
 Working with Experts in Article 10 Cases

This training will provide participants with strategies for working with experts when representing respondents in child protective cases in Family Court. Using a real case example involving testimony from experts in infectious diseases and forensic psychology, we will walk through the process of discovery, deciding whether and how to use an expert in the preparation of a defense, how to find and retain an appropriate expert, how to prepare to cross examine the presentment agency’s expert, and how to prepare your own expert’s testimony. Throughout the training we will discuss evidentiary rules and case law governing expert testimony and how these should be taken into account when planning your litigation strategy.

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  • When
    Tuesday, May 23, 2017
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 3.00
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
    Practice Skills
  • Price: $150
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Emma Alpert (Speaker)

    Emma Alpert is a Senior Staff Attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services. She first joined BDS's Family Defense Practice in 2009 as a Yale Law School Public Interest Fellow, focusing on the intersection of housing and child welfare. She has continued to engage in housing advocacy at the individual and policy levels on behalf of families involved in the child welfare system. Since December 2014, Emma has specialized in litigating res ipsa cases. Emma is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a managing editor of the Journal of Law and Feminism and participated in the Capital Punishment, Immigration, and Domestic Violence Clinics. While in law school, she also worked with the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project and spent summers interning with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Legal Aid Society of New York's Homeless Rights Project. Prior to Law School, Emma earned her B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and majored in English, though she wrote her Thesis with the Art History Department. She has worked in Brooklyn and Manhattan as a paralegal, a restaurant server, and a researcher at the Vera Institute of Justice.
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    Charles Budnick (Speaker)

    Chas has been involved in family defense since 2008. As a law student, he participated in the N.Y.U. Family Defense Clinic, and wrote his student note on incarcerated parents and their children. He has worked at the Brooklyn Family Defense Practice since 2009, advocating for indigent parents in abuse, neglect, termination of parental rights, custody, visitation and family offense proceedings.
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    Keith Baumann (Speaker)

    Keith Baumann is a Supervising Attorney at The Bronx Defenders in the Family Defense Practice. For the last nine years Keith has represented parents as they fight to reunify their families. Keith has led CLEs on litigating termination of parental rights cases including defending against permanent neglect, abandonment, mental illness and mental retardation, severe and repeated abuse, and notice and consent cases; Art. 10 dispositions; Art. 10 discovery; confidentiality; ethics issues; and on holistic defense models. Keith has served as Team Leader, the head of an interdisciplinary team of advocates at The Bronx Defenders including criminal, family, immigration, housing and civil attorneys, social workers, parent advocates, investigators, legal advocates and team support. Keith has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a B.S. from Northwestern University.
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    Jessica Horan-Block (Speaker)

    Jessica Horan-Block graduated from Temple University Beasley School of Law where she was the Executive Editor of the Political and Civil Rights Law Review. Jessica received Temple's 2011 Henry Kent Anderson Human Services Award for her exemplary social justice work. Jessica spent her second summer in law school as an intern with the Family Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders. She also completed internships at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, with Federal Magistrate Judge Felipe Restrepo in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and at the National Labor Relations Board. Prior to law school, Jessica spent time living in both India and Ecuador. Jessica received her BA from Barnard College in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.
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    Jessica Marcus (Moderator)

    Jessica Marcus is a supervising attorney at the Brooklyn Family Defense Project (“BFDP”). She was a founding member of BFDP and has been a supervisor since November, 2007. Prior to the founding of BFDP in July, 2007, Ms. Marcus worked as a staff attorney in the Family Law Unit at South Brooklyn Legal Services, where she represented parents and relatives of children in foster care seeking to reunite their families, and conducted education and outreach regarding the rights of parents with children in the child welfare system. She began in 2001 with a two-year fellowship from Equal Justice Works, focusing on the effects of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on families in the permanency hearing stage of child welfare cases. In addition to her work on individual cases, she developed a joint project with the Legal Aid Society and Lawyers for Children to advocate for the Administration for Children's Services to expand access to housing assistance for families seeking to reunify with children in foster care, or whose children are at risk of foster care placement due to lack of adequate housing. In March, 2006, Ms. Marcus published an article in the N.Y.U. Law School's Review of Law and Social Change on the effects of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on families involved in the child welfare system. Ms. Marcus graduated in 2001 from N.Y.U. Law School, where she was a Sinsheimer Public Service Scholarship recipient and participated in the Family Defense Clinic, which represents parents and relatives of children involved in the child welfare system. Prior to law school, she was employed for two and a half years as a paralegal in the Legal Aid Society's Homeless Rights Project, working on class action litigation and individual advocacy on behalf of homeless families seeking shelter in the New York City shelter system.