EJU 2025 Session Schedule
Schedule as of May 29, 2025. Pending final confirmations.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
8:30 AM CT Opening Plenary
10:00 AM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Paralegal 101: Assisting Attorneys *
- Advocacy Strategies for Students in Challenging School Disciplinary Proceedings and Related Juvenile Court Cases: Highlight on Threats of Mass Violence Cases
- The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
- Innovating Injustice: How AI Harms Low-Income Communities
- The New Path to Restoration: Understanding the New Citizenship Rights Restoration Process
11:45 AM CT Welcome Lunch
1:15 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Paralegal Ethics - What We Can and Cannot Do for Clients *
- Debt Collection Defense Strategy and Issue Spotting Tips
- Immigration 101 and Updates
- Rise of the Resistance: Fighting AI and Winning:
- Compassion Fatigue Remedies for High Stress-High Impact Professions
2:30 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Working with Domestic Violence Victims - Providing Victim Advocacy *
- Bankruptcy Basics
- From Policy to Plate: How SNAP Changes Affect Tennessee Families
- AI in Practice: Use Cases, Risks, and Ethical Considerations of Incorporating AI
- Storytelling With Data +
3:45 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- The Art and Science of Asking Questions: Conflict Coaching for Mediation and Beyond *
- HR and Small Nonprofits +
- Control, Credibility, and Curveballs: A Cross-Examination Playbook
- Yoga and Meditation for Lawyers
- Legislative Update: A New Look for the Tennessee Expungement Statute
5:15 PM CT Task Force Meetings
6:30 PM CT Access to Justice Reception and Awards Presentation
THURSDAY, August 28
8:30 AM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Closer to the truth - Mastering Interviewing +
- The Top Ten Tennessee Trials
- Special Education and Juvenile Justice Laws Impact on Each Other
- Managing the Grant Cycle Part 1 - Building the Foundation for Winning Grants +
- How to: Throw Wrenches in the Slumlord Machine
10:15 AM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Project Management for Legal Services Providers +
- Using Trauma-Informed Lawyering to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking with Criminal Records
- Supporting Successful Transitions to Adulthood for Youth Aged 16-24
- Managing the Grant Cycle Part 2 - Writing to Win and Managing to Sustain +
- Safe at Home Address Confidentiality
11:45 AM CT Leadership Lunch
1:15 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Abuser's Use of Courts for Control
- Public Benefits for Non-Public Benefits Advocates *
- Be a Court Interpreter for a Day
- Leading & Thriving in a Multi- Generational Law Firm +
- EEOC Investigations and Charge Process
2:30 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- First Amendment Across Practice Areas
- Changes in Immigrant Access to Public Benefit Programs
- Ensuring Due Process Rights and Accountability for Special Education Students
- Digital Security: Ensure You Are Prepared for the What-If? +
- Counterclaims in Consumer Law Cases: Strategies and Best Practices
3:45 PM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Supervision of Non-Attorneys +
- Section 8 Vouchers: What every Legal Aider (even one who doesn't do housing) should know
- Marriage, Divorce, and Children: Tax Tips for Practitioners
- Trauma informed lawyering
- Ethics
5:00 PM CT Task Force Meetings
6:30 PM CT Trivia Night
FRIDAY, August 29
8:30 AM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Tennessee Injunctions
- Trauma Informed Care
- TennCare 201
9:45 AM CT Concurrent Sessions
- Tennessee Contempt
- How Orders of Protection Affect and Interact with Other Courts and Causes of Action
- Mindfulness v. Law Practice
11:00 AM CT Closing Plenary
*Sessions designated as “Non-Attorney Professional” were designed with our paralegal and non-attorneys in mind but are applicable and open to ALL attendees.
+Sessions designated as “Administrative and Professional Track” were designed with managing attorneys in mind but the sessions are applicable and open to ALL attendees.
In addition to CLE sessions and Task Force meetings the following organizations have also scheduled meetings during EJU, TN Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission and TBA Access to Justice Committee.