Tuesday, October 21, 2025
10:00 AM
Virtual Help Desk AM
 
 
Virtual
10:30 AM
Breathing & Sun Salutation Session by Susheela
 
 
Virtual
2:00 PM
Virtual Help Desk PM
 
 
Virtual
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
8:30 AM
Registration
 
 
North Entry
10:00 AM
How to help clients get past their pasts with expungement and record sealing
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
AI and Cybersecurity
Mngmnt / PD
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
BollyX
Community
 
Buck Mountain
Current State of Public Benefits: Current Rules and Upcoming Changes
Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
How Federal Subsidies Can Affect Resident’s Rights in Virginia
Attorney Housing
CLE Eligible
Roanoke B
11:15 AM
Lunch on Own
 
 
Explore Roanoke
12:45 PM
Name and Gender Marker Changes in Virginia
Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke B
Legal Research & tasks with Westlaw AI Part 1
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
Too Poor to Die: Death and Poverty
Attorney Consumer
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
Protective Orders - Specifically on Presenting an Effective Case.
Attorney Family
CLE Eligible
Buck Mountain
Ethical Individual Fundraising Today
Community
 
Roanoke GH
2:15 PM
Debt Collection Defense: Beginning and Advanced Techniques
Attorney Consumer
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
Administrative State of Mind
Mngmnt / PD
 
Buck Mountain
Divorce and Discovery from Complaint to Decree (and beyond)
Attorney Family
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
Bridging Health and Justice: Leveraging Medical-Legal Partnerships to Expand Impact
Attorney Health
CLE Eligible
Roanoke B
Thunder and lightning, but also some wind: Federal developments and what they mean for our clients (and us)
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
3:45 PM
Legal Research & tasks with Westlaw AI Part 2
Mngmnt / PD
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
From Legal Aid to the Bench: A Conversation with Virginia Judges
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
Immigrant Youth and Schools to Navigating Education Law and Cultural Barriers: A Guide for Advocates Working with Immigrant Families
Attorney Immigration + Education
CLE Eligible
Buck Mountain
After a Disaster: Legal Issue-Spotting
Attorney
 
Roanoke B
How to Deal with Debt Collectors who Won’t Leave You Alone
Community
 
Roanoke GH
6:30 PM
Dinner on Own
 
 
Explore Roanoke
7:30 PM
Legal Aid's Got Talent (Off-Site)
 
 
Front Row
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:30 AM
Breakfast
 
 
Roanoke C-F
8:30 AM
Registration
 
 
North Entry
9:00 AM
Healthy Housing: Leveraging the Law to Enforce Habitability
Attorney Housing
CLE Eligible
Buck Mountain
Trauma-Informed Lawyering
Attorney Family
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
How Non-Lawyers Can Support Legal Aid: Time, Talent & Resources
Community
 
Roanoke A
Untangling Medicaid Managed Care Appeals in Virginia: Realities and Remedies
Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke B
The State of Education and What it Means for Virginia's Marginalized Youth
Attorney Education
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
10:30 AM
Unemployment Insurance in Virginia: A Presentation More Basic Than a Pumpkin Spice Latte
Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
EGAD-VA: Findings and Potential Recommendations
Mngmnt / PD
 
Roanoke B
Stress to Strength: How to Avoid Burnout and Build Resilience
Community
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
Two Systems, One Family: Cross-Training Housing and Education Advocates to Better Serve Clients
Attorney Education + Housing
CLE Eligible
Buck Mountain
Becoming the Student Loan Expert Your Legal Aid Clients Need
Attorney Consumer
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
11:45 AM
Lunch
 
 
Roanoke CEF
AVLAP Executive Directors Meeting
 
 
Brush Mountain
1:15 PM
Medicaid LTC Asset rules
Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
Mapping Community Spaces: Using ArcGIS for Administrative and Litigation Support
Community
 
Roanoke B
Federal and State Policy Changes for Virginian Immigrants in 2025
Attorney Immigration
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
TANF in Focus: Program Overview for Beginners and How TANF Overlaps with Other Civil Legal Concerns
Attorney Housing
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
Administrative Roundtable
Community
 
Buck Mountain
2:45 PM
Introduction to Debt Relief: Informed planning for public benefits and more
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke B
Assisted Living Facility Discharge Hearings
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
Development Roundtable
Community
 
Buck Mountain
Appellate Brief Drafting
Attorney Consumer & Public Benefits
CLE Eligible
Roanoke D
Best Practices in Protective Order Enforcement
Attorney Family
CLE Eligible
Roanoke GH
4:30 PM
Language Access Taskforce
 
 
Roanoke A
Manufactured Homes Taskforce
 
 
Roanoke B
Appellate Work Group Taskforce
 
 
Buck Mountain
6:00 PM
Reception
 
 
North Entry
7:00 PM
LASSY Dinner
 
 
Roanoke C-F
Friday, October 24, 2025
7:30 AM
Breakfast
 
 
Roanoke CD
8:30 AM
Registration
 
 
North Entry
9:00 AM
Do Gooder Besties: How to Create a Winning Team with Public Defenders
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Crystal Ballroom
Documenting the Ripple Effects of Federal Cuts: An interactive Brainstorming Session 
Public Benefits
 
Roanoke B
Using FOIA to Advocate for Your Clients
Attorney
CLE Eligible
Roanoke A
Learning From Lived Experience: Fending off Poverty Through Low-Wage Work (A Nickel & Dimed Book Club
Community
 
Buck Mountain
10:30 AM
What Happens When your Duty to Zealously Represent your Client COLLIDES with your Responsibility as an Officer of the Legal System
Ethics
CLE Eligible
Crystal Ballroom