Mindful Lawyering Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021 - Louisiana State Bar Association

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

                               Mindful Lawyering
Welcome to the Virtual 18th annual Louisiana Justice Community Conference. The
Louisiana State Bar Association is proud to offer this event online and free to Louisiana civil
legal aid attorneys. This is a time to focus on supporting access to justice through training,
networking, and collaborations.

This year’s theme is Mindful Lawyering – focused on mental health and wellness of the
attorneys and clients in the access to justice community. During this year’s conference,
expect educational programming that promotes the well-being of the civil legal aid
community and supports clients with legal care during uncertain times in the face of natural
disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also be a time of celebration, as we recognize
the outstanding work of our public interest peers at the sixth annual Civil Legal Aid Awards
Ceremony.

We are also excited to also introduce Justice Fridays in the weeks following the
conference, where public interest focused online trainings will continue and be provided
throughout the year. More information about these events will be made available through
the LSBA website at www.lsba.org/cle.

The conference will be hosted online. If you have not already registered for the conference,
register here to receive the Zoom webinar links for each day of the conference.

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2021 (2.0 credit hours pending)

12:00 – 12:15 PM Welcome Remarks
                 H. Minor Pipes III, 2021-22 LA State Bar Association
                 Chris K. Ralston, 2021-22 LA Bar Foundation

12:30 – 12:45 PM Keynote Address
                 Cleo S. Brown, History Matters Institute

12:55 – 2:55 PM    Professionalism: Trauma Informed Lawyering
(2.0 Prof.)        Jamie Beck, Free to Thrive
                   In the first hour of this session, President and Managing Attorney of
                   Free to Thrive, Jamie Beck will cover several topics on how to identify
                   and work with human trafficking victims and survivors. She will discuss
                   the key elements of trauma-informed legal representation at every
                   stage of the case from intake to court. In the second hour, Jamie will
                   discuss vicarious trauma that attorneys often experience, including the
                   signs and symptoms as well as techniques to identify and overcome it.

3:05 – 4:05 PM     Addressing Race and Class Consciously: Think
(Not for CLE)      About What You Just Thought*
                   Cleo Scott Brown, History Matters Institute
                   This is a one-hour interactive workshop designed to help participants
                   recognize and understand how their personal values are applied in
                   determining the value and needs of others.

                   *IMPORTANT: This interactive session can include up to 50
                   participants. To participate, you must register here.

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021 (3.0 CLE credit hours pending)

8:30 – 9:00 AM      Opening Remarks and Giveaways

9:00 – 10:00 AM     Substantive Law: Recent Developments in Family Law
(1.0 CLE)           Prof. Monica Wallace, Loyola University College of Law New Orleans
                    This session will provide recent developments in Family Law pertaining
                    to divorce, custody, and other related issues. This session is sponsored
                    by the Louisiana Family Law Task Force.

10:10 – 11:10 AM Effective Advocacy: Social Security Advocacy for Trauma
(1.0 CLE)        Survivors
                 Jamie Beck, Free to Thrive
                 Jesse Lind, CrescentCare Legal Services
                 This session will focus on how to help trauma survivors and people with
                 stressor related disorders qualify for Social Security Disability benefits,
                 primarily under Social Security Medical Listing 12.15. Additionally, the
                 session will cover preparation for cases before an Administrative Law
                 Judge including pre-hearing briefs, preparing clients for testimony, and
                 documenting medical opinions from mental health providers.

11:20 – 12:20 PM Ethics: Sexual Harassment Prevention in the Workplace
(1.0 Ethics)     Michael B. Victorian, Phelps Dunbar LLP
                 This session will provide information and tools on sexual harassment
                 misconduct awareness and prevention in the workplace as well as an
                 attorney’s professional obligation to report these incidents.

1:00 – 2:00 PM      Civil Legal Aid Awards and LIFT Recognition Ceremony

Total Available CLE Credits for attending both days, pending:
5.0 hours (incl. 1.0 ethics, 2.0 prof.)

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

Keynote Speaker

CLEO SCOTT
BROWN
CLEO SCOTT BROWN is a national speaker
and writer, focusing on issues of race relations,
voting, and class. Her company, History Matters
Institute, specializes in using history to help
people better understand the present with a
goal of creating understanding, introspection,
and change. She presents history filled with
lessons,     wisdom,      enlightenment,     and
inspiration.
Cleo grew up in the Louisiana delta town of Lake Providence where her parents’
involvement in a federal voting rights case exposed her to many years of death threats,
cross burnings, and other random acts of terror. Her parents’ fight to gain voting rights for
African Americans after 80 years of disenfranchisement, along with almost 100 years of
rural Louisiana history, is chronicled in Cleo’s first book Witness to the Truth (University of
South Carolina Press), a Ouachita Parish River Reads selection. Her commentaries on
race have appeared in the Charleston Post & Courier and her second book, Raceology
101, was first-place winner in the 2018 National Federation of Press Women Non-Fiction
Book competition.

Cleo is a graduate of Grambling State University. She resides in Charleston, SC.

                 www.cleoscottbrown.com         www.linkedin.com/in/witness

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

Featured Speaker

JAMIE
BECK
JAMIE BECK is the President and
Managing Attorney of Free to Thrive, a
Southern California-based nonprofit
organization that provides legal services
and additional support to human
trafficking survivors.

Jamie began her law career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Michael M. Anello, a
federal district court judge in the Southern District of California. She then practiced civil
litigation at the Procopio law firm in San Diego for five years before launching Free to Thrive
in 2017.

Jamie was the 2016 to 2017 President of Lawyers Club of San Diego and founded the
Lawyers Club Human Trafficking Collaborative. She also serves on the Dean’s Advisory
board of the University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies. She has trained over
1,000 attorneys, social services providers, criminal justice partners and community
members throughout the United States on human trafficking and trauma-informed
practices.

Point Loma Nazarene University recognized Jamie’s contribution to the fight against human
trafficking, awarding her its inaugural 2016 Hope Rising Award. She also received the 2019
Distinguished Alumni – Rising Star Award from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Jessie Lind has been practicing Law and Social Security Disability Law for 15 years. He is
a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and spent his first five years
practicing law at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services in the Homeless Advocacy Unit. He
then went on to work for Binder & Binder as a traveling attorney throughout the US, but
mainly the Southeast, representing clients in Social Security Disability cases. He then
worked as a self-employed attorney contracting with other firms and companies. He has
represented clients in Social Security Administrative Law Judge hearings in over 20 states
in his travels. For the last three years he has been employed at CrescentCare Legal
Services with primary focus on Social Security Disability Benefits.

H. Minor Pipes, III is a founding member of Pipes Miles Beckman, LLC. He provides
counsel in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, construction law, general litigation,
corporate litigation, and class actions. Since being admitted to the Bar, Minor has tried
numerous cases to decision, in both state and federal courts. Minor was the lead negotiator
for defendants in the global settlements of a national class action involving eight hundred
settling defendants — the matter of In re: Chinese Manufactured Drywall Products Liability
Litigation (E.D. La. MDL No. 2047). Minor has been recognized among the top 50 lawyers
in the State of Louisiana by Louisiana Super Lawyers. He also has been recognized as a
top lawyer by New Orleans Magazine, a leading lawyer in the city by Best Lawyers and New
Orleans CityBusiness, and a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation.

Minor is the President of the Louisiana State Bar Association, a Past President of the
Louisiana Bar Foundation, Treasurer of the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, and
a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. Minor was selected as a member of the
inaugural class of Leadership LSBA, working with leadership of the Louisiana State Bar
Association on numerous projects to improve the legal profession. Minor currently serves
as Co-Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association Summer School Committee. His
community involvement includes working with Trinity Episcopal School and numerous non-
profits in the area.

Christopher K. Ralston is a litigation partner and practice coordinator for the firm’s New
Orleans Litigation Group and 2021-2022 president of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. His
cases span a broad range of commercial litigation issues, including intellectual property,
commercial real estate disputes, trade secret and cyber disputes and tax litigation.

In addition to his legal work, Chris is a recent board chairman for the Pro Bono Project,
Louisiana Community Leadership board chair for the American Diabetes Association and a
member of and officer for the ADA’s National Board of Directors, and a member of the
Louisiana Access to Justice Commission. (cont. on next page)

Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th, 2021

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES, cont.

Christopher K. Ralston, cont. Chris currently serves as president of the Tulane Alumni
Association. He is also a recent past president of the New Orleans Bar Association and
current president of the New Orleans Bar Association’s Inn of Court. Chris Ralston has
been installed as president of the Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF). Chris has served on
LBF’s Board of Directors since 2014.

Michael B. Victorian practices in the areas of labor and employment and commercial
litigation. His employment litigation practice involves representation of employers in all
aspects of litigation and administrative proceedings involving claims of discrimination,
harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, family and medical leave, fair labor standards
and wage and hour disputes. Michael's commercial litigation practice involves representing
clients in education and health care.

He represents clients in federal and state litigation, as well as in administrative proceedings
before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has defended lawsuits involving
wages, retaliation, workplace harassment and discrimination claims based on age, gender,
disability, and race. His client representation spans multiple industries, including package
and freight delivery, fueling, construction, education, health care and restaurant franchising.

Professor Monica Hof Wallace is the Dean Marcel Garsaud, Jr. Distinguished Professor
of Law and the Executive Director of the Advocacy Center at Loyola University New Orleans
College of Law. Professor Wallace joined the law faculty in 2002 after practicing at the New
Orleans firm of Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley & Casteix (now Fishman
Haygood et al). Professor Wallace graduated first in her class at Loyola College of Law and
while attending law school, served on the Law Review and as Chairman of the Moot Court
Program. After graduation, Professor Wallace served as a law clerk for Hon. Jacques L.
Wiener, Jr. of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Hon. Barry Ted Moskowitz
of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Professor Wallace is a frequent speaker and author in the areas of family law, successions,
donations and trusts, and community property, all of which she teaches at the College of
Law. She also lectures on Family Law for Barbri nationally. Professor Wallace designed,
developed, and fundraised for the Loyola Advocacy Center, over which she served as
Director at its inception. She is also an active member of many professional organizations,
including the Louisiana Bar Association, the Louisiana Law Institute, and the St. Thomas
More Inn of Court, and she is an active Fellow for Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers and the
Louisiana Bar Foundation. She also serves on the Board for the Louisiana Youth Seminar.
Professor Wallace has received numerous awards for her teaching, scholarship, and public
service.