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need help with housing or custody issues.
ConneCT WITh us Further, our commitment to longevity is
important because, most of our clients have
few — if any — relationships in their lives that
are steady and even fewer people that they
can count on. Their past relationships with
attorneys have generally been a revolving
door of public defenders or court-appointed
attorneys. The attorney’s ability to manage
clients’ files and resolve their criminal and
civil needs, while working with the case
managers and other staff, is essential to
#MyCMBA #MeetMeAtTheBar providing human-trafficking survivors the
holistic restoration they need.
Human-trafficking victims are all-to-often
overlooked or labeled as criminals. We have
made great strides in Ohio by passing laws to
protect these individuals, but we still have a
long way to go. Our Clinic is doing its part
to make a difference.
The Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking
Law Clinic will be hosting its First Annual
Human Trafficking Symposium on Friday,
April 12, 2019, at the CMBA Conference
Center. Our featured speakers include
Senator Teresa Fedor, who drafted much of
Ohio’s key human-trafficking legislation and
United States Attorney Carol Skutnik, who
handled many important human-trafficking
prosecutions. The program is offering 6.5
CLE credits (pending) and 6.5 social work
CEU credits (approved) for $75/$50 non-
It’s not just what profit or government employees. Feel free
to contact the Clinic for human-trafficking
we know—it’s who. trainings or brief-advice clinics.

1 https://humantraffickinghotline.org/state/ohio
2 https://humantraffickinghotline.org/resources/ranking-
We recruit attorneys 3 100-most-populous-us-cities
Recommendation to Enforce a Subpoena Issued to the
CEO of Backpage.com LLC, Staff Report, Permanent
for short and long term Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate at
4 (2015).
contract assignments,

as well as full-time positions Maureen (Kenny) Guirguis is the
founder and Director of the Northeast
with law firms and Ohio Human Trafficking Law Clinic
at the Renee Jones Empowerment
corporate legal departments. Center. She previously founded and
co-Directed the Human Trafficking Law Project at
Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Ms. Guirguis provides legal representation to both
juvenile and adult human-trafficking survivors. She
also works with legislators and advocacy groups to
research and initiate legislative reform at both the
state and national levels. Finally, she is actively
involved in raising awareness and educating the
public on human-trafficking issues. She has been a
CMBA member since 2019. She can be reached at
(440) 799-3217 or at mguirguis@rjecneolaw.org.
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