New Domestic Violence Laws 2022
Date: Jan 27, 2022
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Price: Free for members and their staff; $35/Non-members
This training is designed for attorneys and non-attorney advocates who work with domestic violence victims and want to know how the bills that were signed into laws this year will affect their work. The training explores laws going into effect that will directly impact your advocacy and the survivors you serve. The training will give you tools to help survivors ensure that they will benefit from laws passed to provide them more support and protection.
Presenters:
Emberly Cross
Emberly Cross has been the Coordinating Attorney at the
Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic in San Francisco since 1996,
helping survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and
stalking obtain restraining orders and child custody and support
orders. Emberly served two terms on the California Judicial
Council’s Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and
currently sits on the Administrative Office of the Court’s
Violence Against Women Education Project Planning Committee. She
obtained her law degree and her Master’s of Social Work degree
from the University of Michigan.
Erin Scott
Erin Scott is the Family Violence Law Center’s Executive
Director. She has extensive experience as a domestic violence and
sexual assault advocate, a family law attorney, and a nonprofit
manager. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of
UnCommon Law and previously served on the Board of Director of
the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and the
Family Violence Appellate Project Prior to joining FVLC, she was
the Directing Attorney of Legal Advocates for Children & Youth, a
program of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and the Director
of Foundation Support at the ACLU Foundation of Northern
California. She has a J.D. from New York University School of Law
and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Pallavi Dhawan
Pallavi Dhawan is the Director of Domestic Violence (DV) Policy
for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. She spent 13 years in
the L.A. District Attorney’s Office where she tried nearly 100
jury trials. She received the 2019 LACBA Prosecutor of the Year
award. She is a Fulbright Specialist in domestic violence and
child abuse and has trained prosecutors, law enforcement, and
advocates in best practices in DV prosecutions. Pallavi received
her B.A. and J.D. from UCLA. In her current role, she works on
improving policy, legislation, and prosecution in domestic
violence cases and helped develop SB 1141, a bill sponsored by
her office that adds the definition of coercive control to the
Family Code definition of abuse.
Questions?
Please contact Christine Smith, christine@cpedv.org