This 90-minute presentation will provide practical guidance on working with interpreters and translators in legal cases, address how to recognize and respond to language access needs, and cover the ethical responsibilities involved in providing and ensuring meaningful interpretation and translation for clients. Participants will also learn best practices, including preparing clients to work with translators and interpreters, working with interpreters in virtual settings, building client trust, and identifying communication concerns. The session will also include considerations for working with vulnerable communities, and commonly used language access technologies. Through lecture and interactive discussion, this webinar will offer practical tools to provide more accessible, effective, and client-centered legal services. 

Litigation Planning and Trial Advocacy Skills Training (TAST) is an intensive training designed to provide participants with an opportunity to develop, refine, and practice trial skills.

Litigation Planning is a virtual training where participants will learn about case planning, theme/theory of a case, evidence planning, and the requirements for a trial notebook. Participants will also meet virtually with small groups to work on exercises related to the case file for the training.

TAST is a four-day training that includes lectures and demonstrations on trial skills. Participants will perform and be critiqued on trial exercises, including opening statements, closing arguments, direct and cross-examination, and using demonstrative evidence. Each participant will be videotaped during the exercises and critiqued on their performance by trainers. Participants will have significant homework assignments leading up to and during the training. TAST culminates in a mock bench trial on the last day (October 8).

CORT will apply for CLE credit for these training courses in Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia.

This training is limited to 32 participants. Registering does not mean acceptance into the training. When registration closes, we will work with each state/program to select participants. If you are selected for the training, you will receive a confirmation email with more registration details including how to book your hotel.

Registration Deadline for both Litigation Planning and TAST: Friday, May 22nd at 5pm

Please join the Ohio Racial Justice Law Task Force for this virtual CLE training. Presenter Rachel Siegel, from The Pew Charitable Trusts, will use mobile and manufactured home policy to illustrate how lawmaking actually works in practice. The presentation will explore how legislative and regulatory choices can deepen or disrupt racial and economic inequities.

Pew's research shows that many borrowers are shut out of access to mortgages, which provide significantly better consumer protections and cost savings compared with alternatives. This training session will examine how these outcomes are shaped by statutes, administrative rules, and local codes and promising approaches to expand access to mortgages.

The Committee on Regional Training (CORT) is co-sponsoring, with the Management Information Exchange (MIE), an in-person Supervising Legal Work Training for legal aid managers and supervisors. The Supervising Legal Work Training is designed to help managers with fewer than 3 years of supervisory experience develop those skills through a combination of substantive presentations and facilitated small group discussions. 

This three-day training targets new, direct supervisors of legal work (with 0-3 years of supervising experience). While this training event includes many general management elements, the content is geared toward managers supervising paralegals, staff attorneys, or pro bono attorneys who provide civil legal services to low-income communities and is aimed at current supervisors of legal work or those preparing to take on that role soon. Topics essential to a new manager's success will be covered, including employment law basics, individual and team dynamics, feedback and evaluation, time management, workplans, and more! 

LOCATION

Weber’s Boutique Hotel,

3050 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan

EVENT DATES

Wednesday, August 12th, 2026 (beginning at 8:00 a.m.) to

Friday, August 14th, 2026 (ending by 12:00 p.m. ET)

CLE

CORT will apply for Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana CLE credits for this training.   

REGISTRATION FEES

As a CORT-sponsored event, there is no registration fee for CORT member programs from Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, and Indiana.

HOTEL ROOMS AND MEALS

After registration closes and attendees are confirmed, more information will be provided about booking overnight rooms in the hotel room block. For planning purposes, the nightly group rate is $114, plus taxes, fees, and parking. CORT will also provide more details about meal costs associated with the training after the attendee list is confirmed.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: CORT has 32 seats reserved at this training for managers and supervisors from CORT programs. Registering does not guarantee acceptance into the training. After registration closes (on May 8th), CORT will work with each state/program to fairly allocate seats among the CORT member programs.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, May 8th, 2026