NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW 2013 Summer Seminar Series for Law Students Please join us for

our annual summer seminar series!

Summer Kick-Off Event - Thursday, June 6 (12-1pm) @ Bingham McCutchen LLP Tirien Steinbach Executive Director, East Bay Community Law Center
Join our staff and law clerks to celebrate the beginning of our Summer Seminar Series!

Please join us as Tirien Steinbach offers words of welcome and inspiration to this years summer law students working for public interest organizations in the Bay Area. Tirien Steinbach is a passionate leader in the campaign for justice. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Tirien has devoted her legal career to serving her community through a range of advocacy methods. Her past work includes representing prisoners on death row through the California Appellate Project, founding the Suitcase Clinic Legal Services project to defend the civil rights of homeless people, and incubating the East Bay Community Law Centers Clean Slate practice, which to date has helped remove employment, housing, and education barriers for over 5,000 clients in Alameda County. Tirien is a Lecturer at Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) and currently serves as Executive Director of the East Bay Community Law Center, one of the first and largest community-based legal clinics in the country. Tirien has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the inaugural Hon. Thelton E. Henderson Social Justice Prize. Co-sponsored by NCYL and Bingham McCutchen LLP The event will be held at the Bingham Offices in San Francisco: Three Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111. Please enter on the 27th floor. For this event ONLY, please RSVP to mperry@youthlaw.org by Tuesday, June 4th, if you plan to attend. (Your name must be on the list for admittance.) For this event ONLY, lunch will be provided.

Thursday, June 13 (12-1pm) Advice on Pursuing a Career in Public Interest Law John OToole, Director, National Center for Youth Law John has been a poverty lawyer and child advocate for his entire career. Come hear his words of advice for the next generation of public interest lawyers and learn what to do in law school to get the job of your dreams! Thursday, June 20 (12-1pm) Private Practice/Public Interest Lin Chan, Associate, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein Jenny Yelin, Associate, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld Learn from a panel of private practice attorneys about private sector jobs that provide significant opportunities for public interest work and how to further explore this type of career. Thursday, June 27 (12-1pm) Public Interest Post-Graduate Fellowships Diane Chin, Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest Law, Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School Sushil Jacob, Skadden Fellow, East Bay Community Law Center Kate Walker, Equal Justice Works Fellow, National Center for Youth Law Have your questions about preparing for the fellowship process answered by the former Director of Equal Justice Works/West and hear reflections on the experience of two current fellows. Monday, July 1 (12-1pm) Due to the July 4 th holiday, this seminar is being held on Monday Clerkships: Insights for Aspiring Public Interest Attorneys Angela Chan, Senior Staff Attorney, Asian Law Caucus, and former Law Clerk for the Hon. Napoleon A. Jones of the Southern District of California Allison Elgart, Legal Director, Equal Justice Society, and former Law Clerk for the Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Jr., of the Southern District of New York Jesse Newmark, Interim Executive Director and Staff Attorney, Centro Legal de la Raza, and former Law Clerk for the Hon. Richard A. Paez of the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Dean D. Pregerson of the Central District of California Come hear inside tips on how to obtain a clerkship and learn how the clerking experience can be useful for a career in public interest law.

Thursday, July 11 (12-1pm) Educational Success for Foster Children Rachel Velcoff Hults, Project Manager, FosterEd: CA, National Center for Youth Law Kim Corneille, Foster Youth Education Liaison, FosterEd:CA, National Center for Youth Law Lisa OConnor, Foster Youth Education Liaison, FosterEd:CA, National Center for Youth Law NCYL's FosterEd Initiative is an effort to improve the educational outcomes of children in foster care. FosterEd recently launched a pilot project in Santa Cruz County, focused on ensuring that every child in care has an educational champion supporting his or her success in school. The FosterEd team will discuss the project and share their experiences working on behalf of children in care. Thursday, July 18 (12-1pm) Combatting Implicit Bias in the School-To-Prison Pipeline Michael Harris, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law Is that student disrupting class or taking initiative? Engaging in disorderly conduct or showing advocacy skills? School staffs perceptions of student behavior can result in disparate outcomes for youth, including disparate rates of exclusionary discipline and school-based arrest. Learn how implicit racial bias shapes these perceptions, fueling the School-To-Prison Pipeline, and about current advocacy efforts to derail that pipeline and keep kids out of juvenile court. Thursday, July 25 (12-1pm) The Promises and Pitfalls of Public Interest Class Action Litigation Bill Grimm, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law Leecia Welch, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law A discussion of class action litigation as an approach to reforming state and county foster care systems, using specific examples from NCYL's work in various states. Hear from two seasoned litigators about the opportunities that litigation offers for systemic change and the procedural hurdles that make obtaining class-wide remedies challenging. Thursday, August 1 (12-1pm) Understanding the Challenges Facing Youth in Californias Juvenile Justice System

Frankie Guzman, Soros Justice Fellow, National Center for Youth Law A discussion of the history and future of Californias Juvenile Justice system from the perspective of an attorney whose experience serving juvie life in the California Youth Authority informs his current advocacy for improved treatment and alternative sentencing for youth charged with serious offenses. Thursday August 8 (12-1pm) Whats the Prefrontal Cortex Got to Do With It? Understanding the Teen Brain to Improve Advocacy Rebecca Gudeman, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law Hannah Benton, Staff Attorney, National Center for Youth Law As advocates, how can we argue both that our teen clients should have autonomy in reproductive health decisions and that they are less culpable than adults for their mistakes, particularly mistakes that result in arrest? Learn about current neuroscience research around adolescent brain development, its implications for teenage decisionmaking skills and how to use this research to better advocate for teen clients.

All sessions (with the exception of the kick-off event) will be held at NCYL on the 16th Floor. NCYL is located at 405 14th Street, Oakland, 94612 (corner of 14th and Franklin) just one block from the 12th Street Oakland City Center BART Station. Please feel free to bring your lunch. NCYL will provide treats. Email Miranda Perry, mperry@youthlaw.org, with any questions.