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2020 NLSVCC National Boot Camp for Clinics Serving Veterans 2020 NLSVCC NatioNaL Boot Camp for CLiNiCS SerViNg VeteraNS AUGUST 21, 2020 | ALL TIMES CENTRAL Each presentation will be recorded and made available on the NLSVCC website. Program moderated by Hillary Wandler (University of Montana). 10:00–10:15 Opening Remarks Chief Judge Margaret Bartley (U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims) 10:15–11:10 Cultural Competency in Representing Veterans Brent Filbert (Missouri); Matt Bulriss (Syracuse); Chris Mullin; Jim Richardson 11:10–11:55 Service Connection Basics Blair Thompson (Hofstra); Samantha Farish (The Veterans Pro Bono Consortium) 11:55–12:00 Technology Break 12:00–1:00 Nuts & Bolts of Advocating for Veterans Seeking Service-Connected Disability Compensation Judy Clausen (University of Florida) 1:00–1:05 Lunch 1:05–2:00 Clinic Student Panel Panel of former students in clinics serving veterans will join Jennifer Morrell (Widener) to offer inspiration and insights 2:00–3:00 Moral Injury & PTSD Nexus Panel Jillian Berner (UIC John Marshall); Margaret Costello (Detroit Mercy); Jonathan Mangold, PhD, HSPP; John Mundt. PhD 3:00–4:30 Strategies & Process for Character of Discharge Determinations & Military Discharge Upgrades Darren Pruslow (Quinnipiac); Margaret Kuzma (Connecticut Veterans Legal Center) 4:30–4:40 Closing Remarks Angela Drake (Missouri) 2020 NLSVCC NATIONAL BOOT CAMP FOR CLINICS SERVING VETERANS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES In addition to the program, video resources will be available on the NLSVCC Member Resources webpage; some will be posted before August 21, and more will be made available as the year progresses. Video Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: • Time Slips & How to Keep Your Clinic Director Happy (Angela Drake) • Evidence Gathering (Chantal Wentworth-Mullin & Matt Bulriss, Syracuse) • Claims File Review: How to Review and Organize a Claims File (Cinthia Johnson, CVLC) • VASRD, Diagnostic Codes, & Rating a Disability (Stacey-Rae Simcox, Stetson, & Mark Matthews, Esq.) • The C&P Examination (Stacey-Rae Simcox, Stetson, & Mark Matthews, Esq.) • Advocating for Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma (Mary Edokpayi, NVLSP, & Adelaide Kahn, Protect Our Defenders) • CAVC Practice (Michele Vollmer, Penn State) • Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (Jennifer Morrell, Widener) • Reading & Interpreting Police Investigations (Brian Clauss & Lori Lewis, James E. Rogers) • How to Work with an Expert (Brent Filbert, Missouri) • Best Practices for Client Interviewing & Intake for Veterans (Hillary Wandler, Univ. of Montana) 2020 NLSVCC NATIONAL BOOT CAMP FOR CLINICS SERVING VETERANS 2020 NLSVCC NATIONAL BOOT CAMP FOR CLINICS SERVING VETERANS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES CHIEF JUDGE MARGARET BARTLEY Opening Remarks Chief Judge Margaret Bartley was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2011, confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24, 2012, appointed by the President on June 25, 2012, and took the judicial oath on June 28, 2012, for a term of fifteen years. She became Chief Judge of the Veterans Court on December 4, 2019. For over 17 years prior to her appointment, Chief Judge Bartley served as a veterans advocate, working as staff attorney and then senior staff attorney for National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP), a veterans service organization. In that capacity, she advised and trained staff and service officers for The American Legion, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Vietnam Veterans of America, and other veterans service organizations and State departments of veterans affairs, on issues related to veterans benefits and veterans preference in Federal employment. She also represented veterans and survivors of veterans in their pursuit of VA benefits before the USCAVC and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 2004 to 2012, Chief Judge Bartley served as editor of the NVLSP veterans’ law quarterly, The Veterans Advocate. She also testified before Congress concerning federal agency failure to apply veterans preference laws and appeared on behalf of amici curiae in several significant veterans preference cases. From 2005 until her appointment to the bench, Chief Judge Bartley also served as Director of Outreach and Education for the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program. In that capacity, she organized nationwide training classes for lawyers interested in providing pro bono representation to veterans and their survivors before the USCAVC. Prior to her career as a veterans advocate, Chief Judge Bartley served as a judicial law clerk to the late Judge Jonathan R. Steinberg of the USCAVC. Chief Judge Bartley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Pennsylvania State University in 1981 and a juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the American University Washington College of Law in 1993. Aside from her many articles on veterans law published in The Veterans Advocate, Chief Judge Bartley is co-author, co-editor, or contributing author of several other articles and publications, including the Veterans Benefits Manual (LexisNexis) (co-author 1999-2010, co-editor 2011- 2012); American Veterans’ and Servicemembers’ Survival Guide (Veterans for America, 2008) (contributing author); VA Benefits for Low-Income Veterans (Clearinghouse Review, Sept-Oct 2006) (co-author); VA’s Obligations Toward Claimants: Analysis of the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 (Clearinghouse Review, July-August 2001) (co-author); The Elderlaw Portfolio Series: Veterans Benefits for the Elderly (Little, Brown and Company, 1996) (coauthor); and Consideration of Pain and Other Factors in Rating Disabilities (Clearinghouse Review, July-August 1996) (co-author). 2020 NLSVCC NATIONAL BOOT CAMP FOR CLINICS SERVING VETERANS BRENT G. FILBERT Cultural Competency in Representing Veterans Professor Brent G. Filbert is the Clinical Director of the University of Missouri Law School Veterans Clinic. Before joining the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic in 2018, Prof Filbert spent 30 years serving as an attorney in the military and in private practice. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions at the Pentagon. His prior military assignments included: appellate defense counsel and judge for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals; prosecutor and defense counsel in military criminal trials and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. He also taught military law at the United States Naval Academy. In private practice, he was as a partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon and counsel at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, working as a litigation attorney on product liability and toxic tort cases. Prof Filbert obtained his Bachelor’s in History from Mizzou in 1984 before receiving his Juris Doctor with distinction from UMKC in 1987. In 1995, Filbert graduated from the Naval War College with the highest distinction. In 1998, Filbert obtained his LL.M. in Trial Advocacy with honors from the Temple University School of Law. Prof Filbert has published numerous annotations and articles on military, criminal and civil law, including his book, Naval Law (3rd Ed. U.S. Naval Institute Press 1998). MATT BULRISS Cultural Competency in Representing Veterans Matt Bulriss is the Staff Attorney for the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic. Before attending the Syracuse College of Law, he served in United States Army for ten years as an Infantryman with the 82nd Airborne and the New York Army National Guard. He held leadership positions throughout his military service, including senior sniper, team leader, squad leader, and platoon sergeant, and deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom multiple times. He served as a student in the Wohl Family Veterans Legal Clinic for two years before joining the clinic full time as its staff attorney. CHRIS MULLIN Cultural Competency in Representing Veterans A native of Franklin, Massachusetts, Colonel Mullin graduated from Providence College with a Bachelors’ Degree in English and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in June of 1984. His first assignment after completion of The Basic School and the Aircraft Maintenance Officers’ Course was with Marine Attack Squadron-223 the “Bulldogs”, Marine Aircraft Group-32 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC as an Aircraft Maintenance Officer from June 1985 to August 1988. (cont’d) 2020 NLSVCC NATIONAL BOOT CAMP FOR CLINICS SERVING VETERANS Ordered to Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL for training, Colonel Mullin received his wings as a Naval Flight Officer on 2 February 1990 and was assigned to Marine Observation Squadron-2 at MCAS Camp Pendleton, CA flying the OV-10A/D Bronco aircraft as a Supporting Arms Coordinator (Airborne). Colonel Mullin deployed to Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-169 the “Vipers”, assigned to the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, aboard the USS TARAWA. With the cessation of hostilities, he re-deployed to MCAS Futenma, Okinawa, Japan as the Logistics Officer for Marine Observation Squadron-2, Detachment “B”, returning to Camp Pendleton in January of 1992. With the dis-establishment of Marine Observation Squadron-2 in May of 1993, he was ordered to the 1st Marine Division for duty as a Forward Air Controller with 3rd Battalion/9th Marines. In November 1994, he reported to Marine Fighter/Attack Training Squadron-101 the “Sharpshooters” at MCAS El Toro, CA for transition training as a Weapons Systems Officer in the F/A-18D Hornet Strike/ Fighter. Completing training in August 1995,
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