Welcome to the Center for Legal Aid Education
The Center for Legal Aid Education (formerly Legal Aid University) provides continuing education and training to equal justice attorneys and staff across the country. Our work is grounded in a deep conviction in the power of the law to protect and advance the rights of people who are low-income or vulnerable and to ensure justice, equality and fairness in the broadest sense. It is further grounded in the belief that in order to deliver on the promise of equal justice, the equal justice delivery system requires highly skilled, knowledgeable and committed advocates. To that end CLAE's mission is simple but powerful -- to provide equal justice advocates, through high quality, accessible continuing education and training, with the tools they need to obtain justice for their clients. 2007 Year End Report
We're pleased to share the highlights of an incredibly busy year for us in our 2007 Year End Report. For these, course descriptions, and a wider context in which to better understand what CLAE has to off, simply click here to download your copy now! Upcoming Courses and Events
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"For me, the most helpful part of the BLaST training was the deliberate and organized way we were taught to examine what we do at the different stages of the lawyer client relationship. The training focused on the essence of what lawyers do on a daily basis, the aspect of my job that is easy to take for granted." Kirk Eicher-Miller spotlight onNegotiations Skills Training Online Given the nature of our caseload-driven, crisis-oriented legal services practices, there is no skill as central to our success, and as little understood, as negotiation. Utilizing the Getting to Yes and Getting Past No interest-based negotiations framework, participants in CLAE's Online Negotiation Skills course engage in four sequenced telephonic negotiations over two weeks. Each negotiation practice focuses on a different facet of the interest based negotiation framework. |
