This Guide describes some steps Judges and court personnel can take to ensure courtrooms and court processes are safer and more accessible for LGBTQ+ litigants.
This Guide is intended to help organizations think about and incorporate components of a trauma-informed intake.
This Guide discusses the federal protections for transgender survivors in sheltering services, the impact of sex-segregated sheltering services on trans survivors, and coalitions’ role in supporting service providers in sheltering trans survivors.
This Guide discusses the effects that anti-transgender laws have on transgender and nonbinary survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking and how coalitions can build their own capacity to navigate these laws, while they support member organizations in navigating them.
This Guide is designed to support prosecutors in drafting jury selection questions and related motions in limine to help you address anti-LGBTQ+ bias among potential jurors.
Case selection criteria are factors a law office uses to decide whether to accept a case for representation. This Guide will help legal organizations develop a process to think through the factors they will use. This Guide is available in English and Spanish.
This Guide provides introductory information and best practices for prosecutors working on cases involving LGBTQ+ victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Bankruptcy is a legal process that allows people who cannot pay their debts to get a financial fresh start. Our Bankruptcy for Survivors publication provides an overview of the bankruptcy process and benefits for attorneys working with survivors. The guide outlines the various processes for filing for bankruptcy, as well as important considerations to discuss with your client as you work together, such as safety planning, the interplay with divorce and immigration, and survivor confidentiality.
The Model Legal Services Agreement (also known as a retainer agreement) is intended to serve as best practice guidelines for attorneys representing victims of gender-based violence, and helps set the framework for trauma-informed, client-centered representation. The model agreement and accompanying materials will help organizations reassess and update their existing legal services agreement, and serves as a valuable tool for organizations creating a legal services agreement for the first time.
This Practice Guide is intended to assist attorneys and domestic violence victim advocates in their representation and work with battered mother respondents in the United States in cases filed under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
These Standards of Practice for the Supervision of Domestic & Sexual Violence Attorneys arise from a trend that the Commission has noticed in recent years: attorneys representing domestic and sexual violence victims often do not have adequate supervision. In response to this concern, the Commission convened a steering committee, comprised of twenty domestic and sexual violence attorneys from across the country. Developed and peer-reviewed by supervising attorneys, these Standards offer a best practice guideline for the successful supervision of domestic and sexual violence attorneys in both legal and non-legal settings.
Designed for higher education professionals, these Recommendations provide an evidence-based and peer-reviewed guide to adoption, revision, and improvement of campus student conduct processes and policies addressing gender-based violence to ensure a safer learning environment for all students.
The Commission convened prosecutors with experience working with victims of human trafficking in the criminal legal system to share their knowledge and expertise on criminal record relief practices, and to develop a set of guiding principles for prosecutors on criminal record relief for victims to ensure consistency and reliability for survivors attempting to access criminal record relief.
This guide addresses how coalitions can build meaningful, sustainable partnerships with LGBTQ+ organizations, and how they can help member organizations do the same.
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