Wednesday, January 8, 2025: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

This class will be hosted on ZOOM

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Many legal clients have disabilities, particularly indigent clients, older clients, and personal injury, education, workers' comp, and employment law plaintiffs. Learn in this presentation about "readily accessible lawyering," a set of strategies you can implement to make your practice accessible for a wide range of clients, regardless of whether you know a client has a disability. Also learn about reasonable accommodations that some of your disabled clients may need. 

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand the prevalence of disability among legal clients
• Identify default practices that make legal practice more accessible to clients with disabilities
• Know how to implement common reasonable accommodations that disabled clients may need
• Discuss how client capacity is variable and can be strengthened with reasonable accommodations
• Know how the Rules of Professional Conduct are consistent with readily accessible lawyering and reasonable accommodations

Earn 1.0 hour California participatory MCLE credit in subtopic of Elimination of Bias

MCLE Disclaimer: MCLE credit is only granted to attorneys licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California. Attorneys from other jurisdictions should contact their state bar to learn about credit reciprocity. 

Presented by: Claudia Center, Legal Director, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)

As Legal Director of the DREDF, Claudia Center litigates cases that increase civil rights and civil liberties for persons with disabilities, and represents the disability community in legislative, policy, amicus, and appellate work. Claudia was previously a Senior Staff Attorney in the Disability Rights Program of the national ACLU Foundation, and the director of the disability rights program at the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid At Work). In 2009, she received the Paul G. Hearne Award for Disability Rights from the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law (now the Commission on Disability Rights).

Registration fee: Registration for this MCLE is FREE through the generosity of the Estate of Joan Levine.