Primary objective:
To aid attorneys working with trauma survivors to understand how trauma affects their clients, understand the professional responsibilities towards clients who are survivors of trauma, and to gain practical skills and strategies to better assist clients when representing or advising survivors of trauma.
Course description:
Participants will learn what trauma is from a neurological and behavioral health perspective and learn how it often presents when working with a client in a legal context. The training will explore how working with trauma survivors as clients can implicate the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct with a thorough discussion of CRCP 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.14, 2.1, 3.2, and 6.1. Participants will learn different strategies to help make representing trauma survivors more effective during initial consultations, preparing for litigation, in court hearings, and concluding their representation. Finally, participants will practice these skills and strategies through role playing and discussions of hypothetical scenarios based on real case experiences.
Presenters:
Megan Collop, LCSW
Megan Collop (they/them/theirs) is the Manager of the Client Support Services unit at Colorado Legal Services (CLS). In July 2022, they joined Colorado Legal Services to broaden the social work program and develop it into a larger, statewide program. They also provide training in trauma informed care, boundary setting, suicidality, and client center communication to CLS staff. Previously Mx. Collop worked at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless for 10 years on an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team as well as being the first mental health provider clients would meet and support as they entered programs at the Coalition. Mx. Collop graduated from the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work and has been licensed for the past 5 years after completing 2 years of work under supervision. They have over 12 years experience working with low-income and dually-diagnosed clients. When not working, they enjoy reading a good book or playing games on their front porch with their neighbors and best friend and dog, Bernie who is in training to be a therapy dog.
Brett Landis, JD
Brett Landis (she/her/hers) has been the Managing Attorney for Colorado Legal Services, Boulder Office since 2016. She previously has worked in private practice, specializing in family law at Warren, Carlson, & Moore in Niwot, CO. She worked for Legal Aid Services of Oregon for six years providing holistic civil legal services to rural survivors of domestic violence. She completed a postgraduate fellowship with the Survivors Justice Center (formerly the Domestic Violence Clinic at Lane County Legal Aid Center) after graduating from the University of Oregon, School of Law. During law school, Ms. Landis engaged in the Domestic Violence Clinic and the Women’s Law Forum. Ms. Landis has more than 15 years of experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence. She has tried cases in Colorado and Oregon and actively engages in community access to justice efforts. When not working, she works in community theater with her husband and cares for her two border collie mix dogs!
Registration Fees
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