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Friday, November 6 • 8:30am - 10:00am
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, Then and Now

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The panel will focus on how disaster legal services have shifted from Hurricane Katrina to the current trend of proactive disaster legal services. Laura Tuggle and Jimmy Fry will share their experiences and lessons learned as attorneys helping victims during Hurricane Katrina. Lisa Gavin and Shirley Peng will then share their experiences as project managers of their new disaster relief programs at Iowa Legal Aid and Legal Aid of Nebraska. John Eidelman, the senior program counsel at LSC, will facilitate the conversation as well as provide input from the LSC’s point-of-view on how disaster relief legal services have shifted in the past 10 years.
Speakers
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Mr. John C. Eidleman

Senior Program Counsel, Legal Services Corporation
John is the point person at LSC on Disaster Response and Recovery. He has served in this capacity for the past 12 years.
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Jimmy Fry

Executive Director, Legal Services Alabama
Jimmy Fry is a retired Alabama District Attorney, retired Army Reserve Judge Advocate General and served as Judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. He has been Executive Director of Legal Services Alabama since 2007 and has planned the delivery of disaster services during... Read More →
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Lisa Gavin

Manager Midwest Legal Disaster Coordination project, Iowa Legal Aid
Lisa Gavin has been a staff attorney with Iowa Legal Aid since 1995 working under a variety of different grants. In January 2015, she became the project manager of the Midwest Legal Disaster Coordination Project for Iowa Legal Aid. She graduated from the University of Iowa College... Read More →
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Shirley Peng

Managing Attorney, Legal Aid of Nebraska
Shirley Peng manages the state-wide Disaster Relief Project and the Low-Income Taxpayers Clinic at Legal Aid of Nebraska. She earned her B.A. from the University of California – Los Angeles in 2006 and her J.D. from the Chapman University School of Law in 2009. She is licensed to... Read More →
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Laura Tuggle

Executive Director, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
Laura Tuggle has been the Executive Director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (SLLS) since May 2014 after beginning her career at SLLS in 1993. She previously managed SLLS’ Housing Law Unit during the years immediately following Hurricane Katrina from 2005-2010. Over her public... Read More →

Friday November 6, 2015 8:30am - 10:00am CST
Nottoway
  Civil

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