'Juvenile Advocacy Training' offers guide to Oakland County court system

The Juvenile Law Committee of the Oakland County Bar Association will present “Juvenile Advocacy Training: A Practitioner’s Guide to Juvenile Code” as an online webinar on Friday, April 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. via Zoom.

This seminar for juvenile law appointed counsel will provide attendees everything they need to know about juvenile delinquency and child protective proceedings in the Oakland County Court system.

Topics of discussion will include:

• Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings: Preliminary Hearings, Pretrial Motions

• Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings—Pleas, Trials and Disposition

• Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings—Perspective of probation officer

• Know Your Judge/Referee (for Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings and Child Protective Proceedings)

• The Business Side of Juvenile Court

• Child Protective Proceedings: Preliminary Hearings and Pretrial

• Child Protective Proceedings: Trials: Jurisdiction, Hearings on Petitions to Terminate Parental

• Rights, Best Interests

• Child Protective Proceedings—Dispositions, Review Hearings, and Permanency Planning Hearings

• Role of Lawyer-Guardian ad Litem

Speaking at the online program will be H. Elliot Parnes, H. Elliot Parnes PLLC; Nicole Bennett, Oakland County Probate Court; Cecilia Quirindongo Braunsoe, K and Q Law PLLC; Linette Ann Miller, Oakland County; Iris V. McCree, Oakland County supervisor Court Business Administration; Moneka L. Sandford, Law Offices of Moneka L. Sandford PLLC; Referee David G. Bilson, Oakland County Circuit Court; Kelly Collins, Oakland County chief of Juvenile Justice Division; Melissa Reid, Sixth Judicial Court; and Victoria Suber, Grosse Pointe Law Center, PLLC

Credit has been approved with the Oakland County Bar Association for 5 Juvenile credits.

Cost is $65 for OCBA Juvenile Law Committee members, $95 for OCBA members, $65 for OCBA new lawyers, paralegals, students; and $140 for non-members. To register for this online program, visit www.ocba.org and click on “events.”