Join me during lunch on 13 November

[Leo J. Flor]

Friends:

 

Please join me during lunch next Tuesday, November 13 from 12:30 to 1:20 (room 133). 

 

To mark Veterans day, I'm giving a talk on the basic legal and cultural concepts that are important to representing veterans in Washington--a state where one in ten residents is a veteran. 

 

We'll cover such titillating topics as:

• what makes a person a veteran?
• how social and legal definitions of "veteran" differ?
• what best cultural practices are there to work effectively with veterans?
• how veterans present a powerful opportunity to prove the efficacy of assistance programs that could be more broadly applied to larger in-need populations (who may not benefit from the broad political support currently afforded to veterans).

The talk is based on CLE's that I gave this past summer to the Washington Defenders Association and the Alliance for Equal Justice, and is supplemented by a guide that I helped out with called Representing Washington Veterans, which ended up being promoted by WALawhelp.org, the Legal Services Corporation, and Lawyers for Warriors.

 

There will be free lunch. 

 

This presentation captures a lot of what I've spent my time in law school doing, and I'd love to have you guys there when I share this information with our school.

 

I hope you can all make it.

leo

[Brian Ferrasci-O'Malley]

Looking forward to it!  Also, remember to RSVP for lunch on Symplicity or risk incurring the wrath of Ann Spangler.

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Brian Ferrasci-O'Malley

J.D. Candidate, Class of 2013

University of Washington School of Law

bri...@uw.edu