Communicating with Children/Determining their Position
2025-02-06 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | CPCS Boston, 75 Federal Street, Boston, MA, 02110, United States
But Why? Communicating & Collaborating with Kids About Being in Care

Stand Alone CRA Certification Training
2025-02-06 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-10 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Zoom

MHLD Training - Guardianship Certification - Session 2
2025-02-07 13:00 - 16:00 UTC
Details TBD
Zoom Session

Virtual Lunch & Learn: Filing Appeals – Bristol County Juvenile Court
2025-02-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Join us for a virtual “lunch and learn” with First Assistant Clerk Magistrate Nancy Pitnof on the procedure for counsel to file an appeal in Bristol County. Ms Pitnof will be available to answer questions and help counsel to get the appeal moving forward as quickly and efficiently as possible. Please register in advance here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

MHLD Training - Guardianship Certification - Session 3
2025-02-11 13:00 - 16:00 UTC

CET Networking Event
2025-02-12 09:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Come learn Best Practices, Benefits & Resources from local immigration attorneys with the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA). Please note, the presentation is not legal advice. If you need to consult with a lawyer, the City can provide contact information for legal services or other referrals for you to consult an attorney.

Representing Older Adults: Bringing People Home, Keeping People Out!
2025-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
The MHLD Training Unit,
MHLD Staff, Panel & Colleagues present:

Representing Older Adults:
Bringing People Home, Keeping People Out!
February 12th from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
On Zoom: 2 CLE Credits: MHLD trial & appeals

Your clients, like 1000s of others, can return to community living, or never go to a nursing home in the first place, because of the Marsters settlement.

You will learn from:

Steven Schwartz, Senior Counsel, the Center for Public Representation (CPR) which filed suit against the Commonwealth, about the Marsters v. Healey settlement and resulting benefits to our clients regarding the initiative bringing people home
Elaine Eliopoulos, MHLD private panel member and gerontologist. will explain her research and share her knowledge about community placement/services for older adults, alternatives to nursing home care and the Frail Elder Waiver

After this training, you will be better prepared to:

Identify how the Marsters Settlement will provide new residential opportunities and support services to allow people to return to the community.
Describe how ageism manifests in our cases.
Advocate zealously for clients facing nursing home admission and help getting them home

Register here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Any Questions?
Laura Sanford lsanford@publiccounsel.net
Beau Kealy bkealy@publiccounsel.net

Evidence Series - Disqualifying a Police Expert
2025-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
See flyer for this series here: Evidence Series Flyer
PRESENTER: Skailer Qvistgaard, CPCS Training Department Staff Attorney
The Commonwealth intends to ask a police officer to testify all about how street drug transactions happen and you would rather the jury not hear about it. Learn some strategies to block this “expert” testimony.
1 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: Criminal Defense Trials (Adult), Post-Conviction (Adult); YAD, YAD Appeals, Mental Health (Trials), Mental Health Appeals, Parole
REGISTER HERE

Barnstable County Training Conference
2025-02-13 08:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Please see flyer below for more details regarding this program hosted by Barnstable County Bar Advocate Program. Any questions or issues regarding this program should be directed there. (Susan Wenzel at susan@attorneywenzel.com or Ellen Garnett at ellen.garnett@gmail.com).

Barnstable Training Flyer Feb 13

Exploring the Connection between Well-Being & Identity in the Legal Profession: The Importance of Supportive Workplaces and Allyship
2025-02-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
SJC Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being. Part 1
Virtual Training
February 13, 2025 – 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PART 1 of a two-part program presented by Heidi Alexander, Executive Director, the SJC Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being in collaboration with the CPCS Wellness Committee.
Part 1 presented virtually on February 13th from 11am-Noon will provide insights on identity in the Massachusetts legal profession, including a snapshot of the demographic makeup of attorneys in MA, lived experiences from historically underrepresented and marginalized individuals in the legal profession, data connecting lived experiences and well-being outcomes and the importance of supportive workplaces and allyship. More details TBD.
Register in advance for this meeting here!

Part 2 (with a date TBD) will focus on recently released proposals from the Affinity Bar Associations that provide practical ways to improve well-being in the profession and to dismantle systemic inequities. This program will feature a roundtable conversation comprised of various members and focused on public service and government workplaces.

Calling your Child Client to the Stand
2025-02-13 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
Calling Your Child Client to the Stand
Thursday, February 13, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Your child client is the expert of their own experience. How can we as advocates amplify our client’s voice in legal cases that impact them. In this training, we will explore calling your child witness to the stand in either a delinquency, CRA, and/or a care and protection case. We will be talking about preparing your client to testify, assisting them in making the decision whether to testify, advocating for accommodations, and more.
This webinar is approved for 1.5 CLEs on the following CPCS Panels:
YAD Trial and CAFL
REGISTER HERE

MHLD Training - Guardianship Certification - Session 4
2025-02-14 13:00 - 16:00 UTC

Zealous Advocacy Welcome Day
2025-02-14 15:30 - 16:30 UTC
Certification Training for Bar Advocates
By Application Only
CPCS Bar Advocate Training Application updated 9.2023
The Zealous Advocacy Training Program involves two in-person training days per week (9:30 am to 4:30 pm) for a total of 8 in-person training days over 4-5 weeks.
In addition to the in-person sessions, each week you will complete work using our online learning platform, to prepare for the upcoming weeks’ live session skills exercises. The self-directed learning on Talent LMS will include watching recorded lectures and other videos, reading articles and cases, and completing written assignments. Some of this work must be completed before the training begins; the rest must be done between the live sessions. You should expect 8-10 hours of this self-directed work per week, in addition to the live sessions. The live sessions include discussions and small group skills exercises that you prepare for in advance. The prep time for the skills based exercises is 2-3 hours per week.

CAFL Q&A with the CPCS Immigration Impact Unit – Plymouth & Norfolk Counties
2025-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
February 24, 2025
1:00-2:00pm

Come join a Q&A with the CPCS Immigration Impact Unit on February 24, 2025 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on Zoom. Fabrizia Rodriguez will join us to answer any questions and provide best practices as it relates to immigration issues affecting our clients in Juvenile Court.

Approved for 1 CAFL CLE.

Join the meeting here.
Hosted by Jennie Cote (jenniebcote@comcast.net) & Todd Williams (tdwilliamslaw@gmail.com)

MHLD Training - Guardianship Certification - Session 5
2025-02-25 10:00 - 15:00 UTC
In-Person Event
Details TBD

Guardianship of Minor Training for Current CAFL Attorneys
2025-02-25 14:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-04 14:00 - 16:30 UTC | Zoom

February MHLD RED (Race, Equity and Diversity) Talk
2025-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
February MHLD RED (Race, Equity and Diversity) Talk
February 26, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Drop-in Lunch & Learn to build on other recent race trainings and support you in your MHLD practice!
THIS PROGRAM QUALIFIES FOR 1 CLE ON THE MHLD TRIAL & APPEALS PANEL

Bring your lunch and come join your colleagues on MHLD staff and panel to talk informally and brainstorm about raising race in our cases. Do you believe that your client’s mental health treatment, admission to a facility or petition for commitment/guardianship is being impacted by racial bias?

This month, we will be joined by Dr. Itiel Dror, a neuroscientist, who specializes on the existence of expert bias and its impact on evaluations and opinions reached.
He will explain how we can educate the court about the way “bias blindspots” could result in deficient evaluations and inaccurate ultimate opinions about our clients.

Here are several articles that Dr. Dror provides if you have a chance to review (but not required)!

The most consistent finding in forensic science is inconsistency
Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making
A general approach for improving decision making as well as minimizing noise and bias: Linear Sequential Unmasking

With Dr. Dror’s expertise, we can also talk about how to tell your client’s story, develop strategy, draft cross and direct examinations, move to admit language from relevant studies and articles and make effective arguments to the court.

This is also a chance to case crunch your cases with your colleagues over lunch!

Come join us!

Registration is required.

MHLD GUARDIANSHIP ROUNDTABLE
2025-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
MHLD Guardianship Roundtable
February 26th @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join your colleagues and Laura Sanford for a Guardianship Roundtable on February 26th 1:00pm to 2:00pm. You get 1 CLE credit.
Bring your issues and cases to “crunch.”
We will spend about 15 – 20 minutes discussing General MUPC Art. V Procedural Outline for Guardianship of an Incapacitated Person and Conservatorship of a Protected Person issued by the Probate and Family Court and how you can use it to your advantage in your practice!
Click here to register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Mindfulness and Grief
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Mindfulness and Grief
1 CLE credit for each webinar for: Criminal Trial, Post Conviction, YAD Trial, YAD Appeals, Mental Health, MH Appeals, CAFL Trial, CAFL Appeals, Parole/Medical Parole, SORB and SDP Panels.
Presented by Filippa Marullo Anzalone, Esq. and Pasqua Scibelli
Live/Remote
Register in advance for this training:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uce-sqTwqHdfpKdt23Bkf-8cYFIo63Yj9
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Growth Mindset for Lawyers: Rethinking our relationship with stress
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | social law library
Faculty
Tracey Meyers, PsyD is a Clinician at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers who presents on stress reduction, mindfulness, and self-care.

Details
Dr. Meyers will discuss the power of developing a growth mindset, including:
• How stress can be utilized in new and different ways depending on our mindset.
• What “mindset” means including both fixed and flexible approaches.
• How to develop a more resilient mindset to support more creative and innovative ways to manage stress, change, and new learning opportunities.

Worcester County RC Meeting - Training Restraints: A Primer
2025-02-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Worcester County Regional Coordinator Training
Mental Health Litigation Division
CPCS

Training: Restraints – A Primer

Date & Time: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 2:00pm – 3:00 p.m.
1 CLE for attending from 2:00 p.m.

Worcester country attorneys who also attend the bi-annual country meeting
from 2:00pm-3:00pm will receive 2 CLE

Location: Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86328370012?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 863 2837 0012
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Advanced registration: NONE

Register in advance for this meeting:
Learning Objectives

1. You will be able to describe physical and chemical restraints, physical holds, and seclusion use
2. You will understand a client’s right to be free of chemical and or physical restraints
3. You will be able to explain potential negative outcomes of the use of restraints
4. You will be able to effectively confront restraint testimony in court
A Primer on Physical & Chemical Restraints: Reduction, Elimination and Behavioral Alternatives
Questions: call Anna Lembo, Esq. (781) 894-0022 or email lembolaw@outlook.com

MHLD Training - Guardianship Certification - Session 6
2025-02-28 10:00 - 15:00 UTC

Communicating with Children/Determining their Position
2025-03-03 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Fall River Office, 1822 North Main Street, Fall River, MA 027201822 North Main Street, Fall River, MA, United States

Training to Address Alcohol and Substance Use
2025-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Regarding Wellbeing in Massachusetts- Addressing your Mental Health: Alcohol & Substance Use
Contact –
Contact – Kristin Dame, Pasqua Scibelli
Details TBD
CLEs offered – 1.5

Zealous Advocacy in the District Courts
2025-03-04 09:30 - 16:30, 2025-03-06 09:30 - 16:30 UTC

eFile Training for C&P Attorneys in Norfolk & Plymouth Counties
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The Administrative Office of the Juvenile Court is rolling out e-File for care and protection cases in Norfolk and Plymouth Counties. Jillian DeBaie, eCourts Business Analyst, will walk us through the eFile system, including how to register for an account and file into open C&P cases. Staff from the Clerk’s Offices will also be present to discuss the use of the eFile system in each county and answer questions.

Register here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

This program is approved for 1 CAFL CLE.

Hosted by Todd Williams (tdwilliamslaw@gmail.com) and Jennie Cote (jenniebcote@comcast.net)

Motion for Special Findings and Special Immigrant Juvenile Visas
2025-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) Visa is an immigration benefit provided to children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned by at least one of their parents. SIJ provides legal status which is an important mechanism for children to achieve permanency. Please join us for a training jointly sponsored by DCF and CPCS on the practical steps for obtaining SIJ for our child and young adult clients. We will provide an overview of Special Immigrant Juvenile Visa for undocumented children, our roles in the Child Welfare system, and a detailed look into drafting the required Motion for Special Findings. Participants will receive checklists and model pleadings. Approved for 2 CAFL CLEs.
