Breaking Povery Barriers to Equal Justice (Part 2)

This four-hour FREE interactive webex CLE will include the following topics

• How we are “primed” to see what we expect
• How this negatively impacts our clients from poverty
• Where we get our information about poverty, and why that’s not reliable
• The federal poverty standards and what they mean in real life
• The criminalization of poverty
• Different types of poverty
• Resource barriers to participating in the court system
• Ideas for increasing common problems, such as clients coming to appointments
• Ways in which we judge those in poverty – and how to overcome them
• How to establish trust
• Different styles of communicating
• Putting it all together: specific suggestions for improving representations

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