This webinar is part of the 2020 PLAN VOCA Grantee Training. Click here for a full schedule of the scheduled webinars in this program.

WOULD I LIE TO YOU?: Practice Tips and Ethical Considerations When Representing Elderly Victims of Financial Exploitation and Abuse

June 17, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Presenter: Leah Finlayson, SeniorLAW Center

This interactive webinar will provide practical tips for recognizing and responding to financial exploitation and elder abuse, including through civil and orphans’ court litigation.  It will also include an exploration of a lawyer’s ethical duty regarding clients with diminished capacity.  

The presenters  will also explore the additional challenges seniors are facing in the pandemic from living with the abuser during a Stay-at-Home order to court access issues.

Registration Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdOqtqj0sE9d1N5ur_TInDx_1NExCxu63

ABOUT THE 2020 PLAN VOCA GRANTEE TRAINING

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. (PLAN) is offering 12 one-hour webinars during June 2020 in place of the previously announced 2-day training contemplated for June 23-24, 2020.

Attendance at 10 of these webinars will satisfy the 10-hour mandatory training requirement and offer two extra training hours. These webinars will offer one (1.0) PA CLE credit each for participation. 

Certificates of Participation for your personnel files will be sent out after all of the sessions have been completed.  

PLEASE NOTE: PERSONS WORKING UNDER A VOCA GRANT MUST COMPLETE THE TRAINING HOURS AND HAVE THE DOCUMENTATION IN THEIR PERSONNEL FILES. 

PLAN thanks PCCD, especially Kathy Buckley and Jeff Blystone, for their creativity and flexibility in allowing us to offer this training virtually in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PLAN also thanks the CLE Board of the PA Supreme Court, for their ongoing funding which makes training programs like this possible for PLAN to offer.