Legal Issues Affecting Veterans with Disabilities: Veterans Benefit Presentation

Originally held on Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Program Chair:
John W. Egan Seyfarth Shaw LLP

• Description
• Faculty
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• Discussion by experienced practitioners before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and dedicated advocates for veterans with disabilities in their pursuit of compensation for their service-connected disabilities.

  The presentation will give a primer on the procedure for veterans obtaining service-connected compensation and the myriad obstacles that veterans with disabilities face, and will seek to encourage increased pro bono representation of veterans with disabilities.

  OnDemand: $49 for Members | $149 for Nonmembers & Non-Attorneys
  Members who are Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2017-2019), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, or attorneys that practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.

• Colonel Matthew Bogdanos US Marine Corps (Ret.) Assistant District Attorney New York County District Attorney’s Office	Art Cody Director of Criminal Law Veteran Advocacy Project
  Kent Eiler Project Director City Bar Justice Center Veterans Assistance Project	Peter Ivan Alumni of the Veterans Court Combat Medic Deployed to Afghanistan
  Peter Kempner Legal Director & Elderly Project Director Volunteers of Legal Service	Hon. Juan M. Merchan Acting Justice Supreme Court – Judge Court of Claims Presiding Justice – Manhattan Mental Health Court Presiding Justice – Manhattan Veterans Court
  Hon. Ruth Pickholz Justice New York County Supreme Court, Criminal Term, First Judicial District of New York	Hon. Carol Sharpe Supervising Judge New York City Civil Court, New York County
  Anne-Marie Whelan Assistant District Attorney Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

• CLE Credit
  New York: 1.0 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias

  Newly admitted New York attorneys (attorneys admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) cannot earn CLE credit in the category of Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias.

• This program has been generously sponsored by:
  
  

  

  

  Sponsoring Association Committees:
  Disability Law | John W. Egan, Chair
  Military Affairs & Justice | Erik L. Wilson, Chair

  Co-Sponsoring Organization:
  City Bar Justice Center Veterans Assistance Project | Kent Eiler, Project Director

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org