Two years after it opened as the first legal program of its kind in the country, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic at the University of Georgia law school has planned its second annual conference to train attorneys to represent survivors.

The daylong event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Jan. 27, with registration opening at 8:30 a.m.. Founder Marlan Wilbanks of Wilbanks & Gouinlock and Emma Hetherington, the clinic's director, will open the program, followed by professors, lawyers, journalists and survivors. The topics include discussions on identifying and reporting child sexual abuse, exposing institutional abuse and fighting commercial abuse.

The keynote speaker will be C.T. Wilson, an attorney, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and an advocate for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Wilbanks launched the clinic just in time to help survivors and attorneys file lawsuits in a two-year window of time granted by the Hidden Predator Act. The legislation extended the statute of limitations for lawsuits by survivors.

The clinic's stated mission is “to provide direct legal services in a supportive, professional environment as well as to educate and prepare the next generation of lawyers to represent survivors of child sexual abuse.” The clinic functions as a resource center for survivors and attorneys who are seeking these claims and is “part of a movement that seeks justice for all survivors of child sexual abuse.”

Information on the conference is available on the university's law school website under CEASE.

Two years after it opened as the first legal program of its kind in the country, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic at the University of Georgia law school has planned its second annual conference to train attorneys to represent survivors.

The daylong event is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Jan. 27, with registration opening at 8:30 a.m.. Founder Marlan Wilbanks of Wilbanks & Gouinlock and Emma Hetherington, the clinic's director, will open the program, followed by professors, lawyers, journalists and survivors. The topics include discussions on identifying and reporting child sexual abuse, exposing institutional abuse and fighting commercial abuse.

The keynote speaker will be C.T. Wilson, an attorney, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and an advocate for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Wilbanks launched the clinic just in time to help survivors and attorneys file lawsuits in a two-year window of time granted by the Hidden Predator Act. The legislation extended the statute of limitations for lawsuits by survivors.

The clinic's stated mission is “to provide direct legal services in a supportive, professional environment as well as to educate and prepare the next generation of lawyers to represent survivors of child sexual abuse.” The clinic functions as a resource center for survivors and attorneys who are seeking these claims and is “part of a movement that seeks justice for all survivors of child sexual abuse.”

Information on the conference is available on the university's law school website under CEASE.