Indiana Legal Services presents the

6th

Access to Justice Conference

Friday, December 4, 2009 at

The Sheraton City Centre Hotel, Indianapolis

Indiana Legal Services, Inc. will host a statewide conference entitled Access to Justice: A Promise We Can Keep on December 4, 2009 at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel. This one-day event will emphasize the need for attorneys, social service organizations and faith-based groups to join in the effort to secure equal justice for Hoosiers unable to afford legal services.

The Access to Justice Conference will be organized into five primary workshops: Government Benefits, Consumer Law, Elder Law, Family Law, and Housing Law. Each workshop will have five, one-hour sessions on topics related to each workshop's subject matter. Attendees will have the flexibility to move between workshops in order to hear presentations that are of particular interest to them. Each attendee will be provided with all conference materials.

The program is approved for 6.0 hours CLE (including 6.0 hours of ethics) and CEU credits for attorneys and social workers.

Featuring

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton,

authors of Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Comment from the Library Journal,

"In 1984 Thompson-Cannino was raped at knife point by a man who broke into her apartment. In a lineup, she "picked" Ronald Cotton as the person responsible, but the real rapist, Bobby Poole, who resembled Cotton, was not in that line. Eleven years later Cotton was cleared by DNA evidence and Poole was convicted. Thompson-Cannino, who had been sure of her original identification, was overcome with grief, and this book is her mea culpa for her mistake. Divided into three parts Cannino's story, Cotton's story, and the story of the meeting and eventual friendship between the two this easy-to-read book is often touching as Thompson-Cannino challenges our ideas of memory and judgment, and as Cotton talks about his faith and forgiveness."

Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking, writes,

"This book will break your heart and lift it up again...a touching and beautiful example of the power of faith and forgiveness. Its message of hope should reverberate far beyond the halls of justice."

You may use our online registration which will allow you to select your conference sessions and pay for the event.

Registration Options:

You can review the agenda and register for the conference using the online system here.

If you would like to print a registration and mail it, with your payment, please click here.

A copy of the agenda can be found here.

We would like to thank the following sponsors:

The Indiana Supreme Court

Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman, P.C.

This web site was made possible by generous support of the Legal Services Corporation.