Description
Total Credits: 7.0
(Professional Practice 5.0 , Ethics 1.0, Diversity Inclusion & Elimination of Bias 1.0)
This program is designed to introduce attorneys to the nature of disabilities and build the skills necessary to ensure that people with disabilities retain their autonomy and enjoy community integration and employment opportunities consistent with their abilities in the least restrictive environment. The ethical implications of representing people with diminished capacity will also be explored.
Agenda Topics
- Concepts of Disability
- Anti-Discrimination Laws: Housing & Employment
- Administration of Special Needs and Trusts
- Guardianship: Existing Law and Emerging Trends
- Representing People With Diminished Capacity
- Admission/Involuntary Treatment/Assisted Outpatient Treatment
- Psychiatric Advanced Directives
Program Faculty
Joseph Accetta, Esq. | Supreme Court, Westchester County
Nadia Arginteanu, Esq. | NYSARC, Inc. Trust Services
Genoveffa Flagello, Esq. | Mental Hygiene Legal Service
Heidi Flatt | NYSARC, Inc. Trust Services
Hon. Kristin Booth Glen | CUNY School of Law
John Herrion, Esq. | New York State Division of Human Rights
Eugenia Heslin, Esq. | Mental Hygiene Legal Service
Scott Wells, Esq. | Disability Rights New York
Carolyn Wolf, Esq. | Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP
Joseph Accetta, Esq. | Supreme Court, Westchester County
Nadia Arginteanu, Esq. | NYSARC, Inc. Trust Services
Genoveffa Flagello, Esq. | Mental Hygiene Legal Service
Heidi Flatt | NYSARC, Inc. Trust Services
Hon. Kristin Booth Glen | CUNY School of Law
John Herrion, Esq. | New York State Division of Human Rights
Eugenia Heslin, Esq. | Mental Hygiene Legal Service
Scott Wells, Esq. | Disability Rights New York
Carolyn Wolf, Esq. | Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP
Materials
| 1.1 - Hon. Kristin Booth Glen - Piloting Personhood - Reflections From the First Year of a Supported Decision-Making Project (242.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 1.2 - Outline - Carol Blessing - Concepts of Disability (716.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 1.3 - PowerPoint - Carol Blessing and Laura Bevacqua - Concepts of Disability (1.8 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 1.4 - PowerPoint - Jennifer Monthie - Concepts of Disability (1.6 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.1 - Outline - Hon. Barbara Howe - Guardianship - Existing Law and Emerging Trends (13.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.2 - Sheila Shea and Carol Pressman - Guardianship - A Civil Rights Perspective (396.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.3 - Outline - Joseph Accetta - Guardianship - Existing Law and Emerging Trends (1.6 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.4 - 17A Guardianship for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities - Changes on the Horizon (384.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.5 - Restoring Rights in 17A Guardianships - Myths and Strategies (168.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.6 - Article 17A Pleadings - Disability Rights New York (400 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.7 - Matter of Anna F. - NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department (21.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.8 - Matter of Sloane v. M.G. - NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (64.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.9 - Estate of Albert J. (104.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.10 - Estate of Caitlin (228.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.11 - Matter of Michael J.N. (452.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.12 - Matter of Sean O. (191.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 2.13 - Proceeding for the Appointment of a Guardian for Hilton (89.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 3.1 - PowerPoint - Heather Giambra - Anti-Discrimination Laws - Employment (933.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 3.2 - John Herrion and Gregory Jones - Employment Rights (206.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 3.3 - Employment Protections for Persons with Disabilities Under the New York State Human Rights Law (448.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 3.4 - Materials - Anti-Discrimination Laws - Employment (670.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.1 - PowerPoint - Heidi Flatt and Nadia Arginteanu - Administration of Special Needs Trusts (559 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.2 - PowerPoint - Jessica Fields - Pooled Supplemental Needs Trusts (379.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.3 - PowerPoint - Robert Mascali - Administration of Special Needs Trusts (243.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.4 - Outline - Robert Mascali - Administration of Special Needs Trusts (544.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.5 - OBRA '93 Provisions on Transfers and Trusts (40 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.6 - 42 U.S.C.A. § 1396p - Liens, Adjustments and Recoveries, and Transfers of Assets (98.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.7 - Administrative Directive - OBRA '93 Provisions on Transfers and Trusts (75 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 4.8 - SI 01120.203 - Exceptions to Counting Trusts Established On or After 1-1-00 (1.9 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 5.1 - Simeon Goldman - Housing Rights of Persons with Disabilities (147.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 5.2 - PowerPoint - Disability Rights New York - Reasonable Accommodations in Housing Law (456 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 5.3 - Housing Rights for Persons with Disabilities Under the New York State Human Rights Law (416.7 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 5.4 - Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - What Fair Housing Means for People with Disabilities (585.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6.1 - Nancy Maurer - Ethical Issues in Representing Clients with Diminished Capacity (441.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6.2 - Diane Goldstein Temkin and Barry R. Temkin - The Mentally Impaired Client - Who Decides Trial Strategy (237.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6.3 - NYSBA Ethics Opinion 486 - Confidences of Client, Suicide, Disclosure of Intent to Commit (69.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6.4 - Sheila Shea - Representing Clients with Mental Disabilities (4.2 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 6.5 - PowerPoint - Nancy Maurer - Representing People with Diminished Capacity - Ethical Issues (797.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.1 - PowerPoint - Cailin Brennan - Focus on Mental Health (3.9 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.2 - PowerPoint - Jesslyn Holbrook and William Clark - Admission, Involuntary Treatment, Assisted Outpatient Treatment (237.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.3 - Outline - Carolyn Wolf - Admission, Involuntary Treatment, Assisted Outpatient Treatment (317.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.4 - Mickey Keane and Hon. Gerald Lebovits - Mental Hygiene Hearings in New York (375.6 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.5 - Sheila Shea - Rights in Facilities (281.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.6 - Rights of Inpatients in NYS Office of Mental Health Psychiatric Centers (880.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.7 - McKinney's Mental Hygiene Laws (168.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.8 - Contact Information for the Justice Center to Report Allegations of Abuse and Neglect (51.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 7.9 - Flow Chart (103 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.1 - PowerPoint - Nina Loewenstein and Scott Wells - Advance Directives (668.3 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.2 - Psychiatric Advance Directives - A New York Perspective (4 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.3 - Matter of Rosa M. (171.8 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.4 - Mental Health Advance Directive Form (342.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.5 - Mental Health Advance Directive Fact Sheet (651.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| 8.6 - New York State Consolidated Laws on Health Care Agents and Proxies (38.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||