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This webinar is the second in a three-part series designed to enhance the ability of attorneys to provide effective legal representation to child-victims regarding their rights in criminal cases. This session provides concrete strategies for effectively communicating with and representing child-victims across the age spectrum.

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This session provides an overview of the neurobiology of trauma and its unique impact on child victims. Building on this information, presenters will provide some strategies to help facilitate effective communication with clients who are child victims.

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This session provides a discussion of law, ethics, and practice tips to ensure one's advocacy does not inadvertently cross the line into unauthorized practice of law.

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This session focuses on the different justice systems that a human trafficking victim may be involved in and how to best serve victims who may be navigating various systems.

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This session discusses notable victims' rights cases from 2013, both domestic and international. Speakers explore published and unpublished cases, legal changes, and litigation strategies for practitioners.

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This session provides an overview of what rights exist for victims in the military, focusing on standing, how to assert rights, and the latest appellate practice. The session provides an overview of the Air Force's Special Victim Counsel Program, which was the first program in the military to provide counsel to sexual assault victims. The targeted audience for this session includes military counsel and civilian attorneys working with crime victims.

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Regardless of whether an attorney practices criminal law, family law, employment law, tort law, or wills and estates, (s)he will likely encounter clients with a trauma history, and advocates in the justice system will undoubtedly encounter these same individuals. This session explains the brain's response to trauma such that participants will gain a better understanding of the neurobiology of trauma, and why their clients may be ambivalent about participating in the justice system.

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Attacks on victim privacy happen every day in the form of subpoenas for victim records, requests for a pretrial interviews, and disclosure of a victim's name in open court. Because privacy is critical to victims' recovery and access to justice, protecting privacy must be a key strategy of the victims' rights movement. This session discusses methods of protecting victim privacy, ranging from securing use of pseudonyms to quashing subpoenas, to enhance the practitioner's ability to protect victim privacy.

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This session, designed for advocates, is an overview of victims' rights laws, and an identification of common issues that victims face as they are forced to navigate the criminal justice system. Rebecca Khalil, NCVLI Staff Attorney, and Karla Salp, a victim advocate, discuss the state of victims' rights laws nationally, identify the most common stages in a criminal proceeding where victims' rights are at risk, discuss how advocates can protect these rights without crossing the line into unlawful practice of law, and explore how advocates and attorneys can best work together to enforce and advance victims' rights.

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This session, designed for attorneys representing victims, is an overview of victims' rights laws, and an identification of common issues that victims face as they are forced to navigate the criminal justice system. Meg Garvin, NCVLI Executive Director, and Rebecca Khalil, NCVLI Staff Attorney, discuss the state of victims' rights laws nationally, identify the most common stages in a criminal proceeding where victims' rights are at risk, and target how system-based and community-based victim advocates can protect these rights.