Speaking & Continuing Legal Education
CLE sessions and practitioner training on human-trafficking identification, the credibility of survivor accounts, and institutional liability under the TVPA, built for litigators, clinicians, and students who encounter these questions where they are actually decided.
In-person or webinar, 45–90 minutes, with discussion. Longer half-day workshops available.
Presented through your organization’s CLE provider status; co-presentation with counsel welcomed.
Each session adapts to your audience and jurisdiction, whether trial bar, clinical, or classroom.
Four sessions, each available as a standalone talk or expanded workshop. Titles and emphasis can be adjusted to your program.
For plaintiff- and defense-side civil litigators
Institutional liability under the TVPA turns on whether a defendant knew or should have known of trafficking. This session unpacks what the “should have known” standard actually requires of an expert and a fact-finder: which indicators were recognizable, what a reasonable institution was positioned to see, and how identification standards translate into a theory of the case that is either defensible or vulnerable.
For clinicians, immigration practitioners, and law students
Credible accounts of exploitation are routinely disqualified for the very features trauma produces: inconsistency, delay, fragmented disclosure. Drawing on research and more than three hundred expert assessments, this session examines how credibility is actually constructed in legal settings, why standard assumptions about “reliable” testimony misfire, and how practitioners can present and defend survivor accounts with rigor.
For a general bar, policy, and academic audience
From hotels to platforms to public agencies, institutions are increasingly held to a duty to recognize trafficking. This session traces where identification standards come from (national referral frameworks, GRETA and ECAT benchmarks, sector guidance) and how they are now used to measure institutional conduct in litigation and policy alike. A grounding session for anyone working at the intersection of trafficking, institutional duty, and law.
For litigators, policymakers, and academic audiences
The frameworks now used to measure institutional conduct in the US did not originate here. Drawing on direct experience as a UK National Coordinator on trafficking and a consultant to the European Commission, this session sets the British and European identification systems (national referral mechanisms, the Council of Europe Convention, GRETA monitoring) against the emerging US approach. It shows where US “should have known” standards are quietly converging with international benchmarks, and what a generation of European practice reveals about how identification succeeds and fails.
Bar associations and trial-lawyer groups seeking accredited CLE on trafficking and credibility for civil and immigration practice.
Law school clinics and practitioner organizations training advocates who prepare and defend survivor testimony.
Classroom lectures, guest sessions, and interdisciplinary convenings on identification, credibility, and institutional duty.
A note on accreditation
CLE accreditation rests with the hosting organization’s approved provider status, not with the speaker. As a subject-matter expert I present within your program’s accreditation, and I’m glad to co-present with an attorney where your jurisdiction or format calls for it. I can supply a session description, learning objectives, and a short bio in whatever form your accreditation paperwork requires.
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Available in person or by webinar for CLE programs, clinical and practitioner trainings, and law school sessions. Session descriptions and learning objectives available on request.