Promoting an expansive view of a legal aid lawyer’s role, our Community Lawyering training underlines the importance of thinking beyond litigation in addressing the kind of major problems that too often face legal aid clients (while retaining litigation as a vital tool). Addressing the pressing issues of a recognizable case study, participants learn the multi-tactic tools of a successful advocacy campaign, including media and outreach skills, facilitative leadership, action research, targeted planning, campaign feasibility and power analysis. You will also explore the relationship between traditional lawyering and these other disciplines and how, as a lawyer, to contribute most effectively to broad based advocacy campaigns. ‘Tales from the trenches’ - stories of successful legal services partnerships with campaign based advocacy efforts - enrich this learning experience, and you'll have the oppoortunity to apply the learning to think about campaign based approaches to the advocacy challenges you face back home.

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