The 2015 Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Public Benefits Conference will be held on April 23-24, 2015 at the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, 211 North Front Street, 1st Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17101.

Registration is free to staff and client board members of the following PA Legal Aid Network (PLAN) programs: CJP, CLS, FoF, LLS, LASP, MPLS, NLSA, NPLS, NWLS, PHLP, PILP, PLA, PULP, RHLS and SWPLS. Registration includes conference materials, continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks on Thursday, April 23 and full breakfast, morning snacks and lunch on Friday, April 24. Registration for staff of non-PLAN public interest, government, or other non profit organization is $150.00. The cost for all other registrants is $225.00.

CLE Credits

This conference has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 9.5 hours of CLE credit substantive law, practice and procedure and up to 1.0 of ethics, professionalism or substance abuse CLE credit. An additional fee of $15.00 is required for anyone who is applying to receive this CLE credit.

Hotel Accommodations

Hotel accommodations are available to conference attendees at a special conference rate of  $103.00 (Double) or $96.00 (Queen). The cost of parking is $9 per day.  Shuttle service will be provided for hotel patrons/conference attendees the morning and afternoon of April 23 and morning of April 24.

If you are a staff member or board member of one of our legal aid programs and you need hotel reservations, please indicate that on your registration form. We will add your name to the rooming list. Room, tax and parking will be direct billed to PLAN and our fiscal department will reconcile later with your program. While we will make hotel reservations for all attendees, registrants who are not affiliated with the PA Legal Aid Network of programs will be responsible to pay his/her own accommodations at the time of check in. To ensure that you receive the special conference rate, you must confirm your hotel needs to us by Friday, March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

If you miss the hotel deadline but still require hotel accommodations, please contact the Crowne Plaza Harrisburg-Hershey directly at 717-234-5021.  Please inform hotel staff that you will be attending the PA Legal Aid Network Public Benefits Conference.

Please note:  The conference registration deadline is Friday, April 17, 2015.

This year, there will be many helpful sessions for legal services staff, clients and other friends of the legal services community. CLICK HERE to view the conference agenda.

Please contact Arlene Marshall-Hockensmith if you have questions about the conference at amarshall-hockensmith@palegalaid.net, or Joyce Tomasko at jtomasko@palegalaid.net if you have any questions regarding registration.

More Information and Online Registration 
Downloadable Registration Form