Florida Legal Services and the Center for Legal Aid Education welcome you to the registration form for the Affirmative Litigation Training (ALT) training.

The Affirmative Litigation course guides you through the process of creating and prosecuting an affirmative case in a fashion designed to put this practice firmly in your repertoire, not through oversimplifying the core issues at stake but by breaking them down into more easily digestible components over a manageable time frame. In the context of a compelling, and all too real legal services case problem, you'll spend three weeks of online activities (about 6-10 hours a week) using interactive video lectures, webinars, readings and handy forms and analysis tools to identify, craft and plan a legal strategy to address a systemic legal problem and secure broad based relief for a group of clients, while securing changes in the practices of the defendant institutions to prevent others from facing the same problems in the future. You'll end the online portion by drafting a federal complaint to initiate the lawsuit.

Then you'll join us in person for four days of intense action learning to continue working the case through motions for temporary injunctive relief, a motion to dismiss, discovery planning and the crafting of relief, all under the expert guidance of experienced affirmative litigators who will provide you constructive feedback and critique throughout.


Web-based online training begins: September 27 - October 19, 2010

The in-person portion of the training will take place, Tuesday-Friday, October 19-22, 2010 at the Embassy Suites Hotel -USF/Busch Gardens, 3705 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, Florida. You will be responsible for making your own hotel reservations (see Hotel Accommodations section). In order to receive the hotel discount rate of $101.00 per night, reservations must be received by SEPTEMBER 17, 2010.

Please check with your IT/System Administrator to confirm your equipment meets the following criteria. For technical questions, please contact Jimmy Midyette (Statewide Website & Technology Office) at jimmy@floridalegal.org or by telephone at 904-317-2980.

Computer Hardware:
Intel or AMD, 500 Mhz or faster
256 MB RAM
Computer speakers or headphones

Computer Software:
Windows 98, 2000 SP4, or XP SP2, or Vista
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Browser: Internet Explorer 6+ or Mozilla Firefox 1.7+
Adobe/Macromedia Flash Player

Other:
Internet access via 56K modem or faster (Broadband strongly recommended)
DVD player (PC or standalone with television)

PLEASE NOTE: We cannot guarantee true vegetarian/vegan meals. Nor can we provide or guarantee food is free of any specific allergen (e.g. soy, diary, wheat, nuts, etc.). Any participant likely to suffer a severe anaphylactic reaction to an allergen or on a restrictive diet may want to consider bringing their own food items.

A rooming block has been reserved at the Embassy Suites-USF/Busch Gardens, Tampa, FL. Reservations can be made by emailing Ermy Rosales, at ermy.rosales@jqh.com or by calling 813-977-7066. To receive the group rate you must identify yourself as part of the "Affirmative Litigation Training". Room rates are $101.00 per night.

Reservations must be made by SEPTEMBER 17, 2010. Reservations made after this date will be accepted based upon availability at the hotel's prevailing rate.

Cancellations must be made by 4:00 p.m. the day before arrival (please verify cancellation policy when making your reservation).

All hotel rooms will be master billed to Florida Legal Services. No credit card will be needed to book reservations. A credit card will be needed at check-in to cover incidentals. Florida Legal Services will bill your program for your rooming accommodations. Please note, if you must withdraw from the training, you must also remember to cancel your hotel reservations (if applicable). Should a failure to cancel your reservation result in a "No Show" charge to the FLS master account, we will bill your program.

Please be sure you have provided a viable work email address, all future communications will be through emails.

You will receive a confirmation email once your registration is completed. Occasionally due to email restrictions this confirmation may not be accepted by your email server. DO NOT submit another registration. Contact our Training Coordinator, Sharon Ferguson at sharon@floridalegal.org to confirm whether your registration was received.