The ABA Center on Children and the Law would like to alert our legal colleagues to this opportunity:

The Children’s Rights Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation is proud to release the free training video Interviewing Child Client.

This video and the accompanying on-line teaching guide provide practical guidance and demonstrations of techniques that can help lawyers work effectively with their child clients. Narrated by well-known actor and television star, Amy Brenneman, this video and the on-line accompanying teaching materials combine the experiences of children’s law experts around the nation. The video is a useful tool for lawyers and law students who represent children in many areas of law including juvenile justice, child protection, special education, suspension and expulsion, immigration, etc. Whether you are a career children’s lawyer or it is your first child interview, we hope the video helps improve and inform your practice to help you provide the highest quality representation to your child client. To order your free copy of Interviewing the Child Client, please e-mail your name, address and number of copies that you need to catherinekrebs@prodigy.net.

The ABA’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation exists

• to address the underrepresentation of children in all aspects of the legal system,
• to increase the number of children’s legal projects and pro bono attorneys representing children, and
• to provide training materials and programs to assist advocates in providing the highest quality of representation for children.

For more information about this and other projects of the committee, please visit their website at Children's Rights Litigation