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This flier for families, available in English and Spanish, explains the Texas Education Agency codes for excused absences for health care appointments, including medical, dental, psychological and special education services and the process for working with school attendance personnel. Families use the information with school personnel who, for example, erroneously tell the family that their child's dental appointment is unexcused. The information is also helpful to care providers who have families miss appointments due to misinformed school personnel. Adaptable to other medical-legal partnerships.

This flier for families, available in English and Spanish, explains the Texas Education Agency codes for excused absences for health care appointments, including medical, dental, psychological and special education services and the process for working with school attendance personnel. Families use the information with school personnel who, for example, erroneously tell the family that their child's dental appointment is unexcused. The information is also helpful to care providers who have families miss appointments due to misinformed school personnel. Adaptable to other medical-legal partnerships.

The law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP recently adopted a clinic at the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center. Working with Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, pro bono attorneys from Ropes & Gray now staff the legal clinic at Dorchester House.

The webinar explores how medical-legal partnerships can work with private law firms to build infrastructure for health center adoption.
Presenters: Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Associate, Ropes & Gray LLP
Michelle Garvin, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Samantha Morton, Executive Director, Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston
Rosalyn Garbose Nasdor, Pro Bono Coordinator, Ropes & Gray
Kelly Scott-Flood, Attorney, American Bar Association

Debra J. Wolf, an attorney at LegalHealth, describes disclosure requirements under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), and protection against workplace discrimination for individuals with cancer or other chronic illnesses.

CITATION:
Know Your Legal Rights in the Workplace. Coping with Cancer. May/June 2009; 23(3): 32. Debra Wolf.

Legal client sheet developed by the Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI.

Legal case sheet developed by the Families' Legal and Medical Partnership in Milwaukee, WI.

An easy check off form letter for physicians to use when verifying a patient's need for a reasonable accomodation. Covers many forms of reasonable accomodation. On Holyoke Health Center Letterhead.

ABSTRACT:

In this Article, the authors, two clinical law teachers and a social worker teaching in the clinic, wrestle with some persistent questions that arise in cross professional, interdisciplinary law practice. In the past decade much writing has praised the benefits of interdisciplinary legal practice, but many sympathetic skeptics have worried about the ethical implications of lawyers working with nonlawyers, such as social workers and mental health professionals. Those worries include the difference in advocacy stances between lawyers and other helping professionals, and the mandated reporting requirements that apply to helping professionals but usually not to lawyers. This Article addresses those concerns in a direct way, using social work as an exemplar for many kinds of interdisciplinary practices.

Article examines the benefit of coordinated advocacy for domestic violence survivors and the issues of training, consultation and confidentiality for providers.

CITATION:
Partnering Providers and Advocates for Child Wellness and Family Stability.  Clinician Quarterly.  Fall 2007; 11(4): 4-5.  Anne E. Gillespie, JD and Betsy Groves, LICSW.

Article examining the ethical dilemmas facing nurse attorneys.

CITATION:
The Nurse’s Duty to Report Child Abuse Versus the Attorney’s Duty of Confidentiality: The Nurse Attorney’s Dilemma.  Journal of Nursing Law, 1(1). 2007.   Kathleen M. Kearney, RN, MSN, JD.