CAST’s Legal Working Group (LWG) call offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with legal professionals nationwide. It's a platform where you can ask questions, share experiences about human trafficking cases, and expand your professional network. This Legal Working Group is exclusively open to attorneys, DOJ Accredited Representatives, paralegals, legal assistants, and law students. Use the form below to sign up for call notifications.
On the call, we delve into topics such as immigration (with a focus on T visa practice), victims’ rights, law enforcement reporting, victim services and benefits, post-conviction relief, and survivor-centered lawyering. In addition, attendees gain access to the latest updates in anti-trafficking legal and policy matters.
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, we will exclusively address questions related to trauma-informed lawyering, client interactions, and other non-legal matters. Legal case-specific questions will not be addressed on this call.
Call-In Information
Every Wednesday at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST
(Download a calendar invite here.)
How to Access
💻 Computer https://meetings.dialpad.com/room/castla
☎️ Phone: (866) 383-9568
To have your question addressed during our Legal Working Group, submit your question on our Legal Working Group - Pre-Submitted Questions Form. If you submit a question but fail to attend the call, you will be required to submit an individual technical assistance request to have your question answered.
**Please do not submit questions for future calls. Only send questions for the Wednesday call scheduled in the same week as your submission. We can only guarantee responses for questions related to the upcoming Wednesday call. Additionally, we cannot guarantee that we will answer all questions submitted, as we sometimes receive a high volume of questions. In such cases, you may receive an email asking you to submit your request as an individual technical assistance request instead. Please sign up for email notifications as some calls may be canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
We also request that you refrain from submitting duplicate questions. If you've already submitted the same question through our individual TA request form, please await our written response to help us conserve resources.**
For law students, paralegals, and legal assistants: feel free to join this call for learning and listening purposes, and ask questions that don't require legal analysis. If your question does require legal analysis, we will ask you to submit an individual technical assistance request, including information about your supervising attorney.
Use the form below to sign up for call notifications. Don't forget to check the "send me email updates" box to receive email notifications. If you miss this step, you won't receive any emails from us.