Enhancing Practitioner and Judicial Skills in Abuse in Later in Life Cases
Total Credits: 1 CLE
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- Categories:
- Mental Health and Elder Law
- Faculty:
- Lisa A VandenBerg | Sarah E Selzer
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Jun 04, 2025
Description
A discussion, facilitated by the use of an actual case of elder abuse, to promote awareness of potential ways we as practitioners and judges may improve, promote, and or develop programs in our legal community to serve older adults, particularly victims of abuse.
The seminar is designed to be interactive and engaging for attendees and the presenters.
Faculty:
Judge Lisa VandenBerg, Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court
Commissioner Sarah Selzer, Probate Department of the Maricopa County Superior Court
Handouts
| EnhancingPractitionerAndJudicialSkills_FinalMaterials (2.2 MB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Lisa A VandenBerg Related Seminars and Products
Judge
Maricopa County Superior Court
Honorable Lisa A. VandenBerg has dedicated her legal career to serving Maricopa County. For the past 18+ years she has served as both Commissioner and Judge on the Arizona State Superior Court of Maricopa County. She currently serves as the Associate Presiding of the Probate/ Mental Health Department, in the Downtown Court Complex.
Through her previous assignments she has served in the Criminal Department for a combined to-tal of over 12 years, along with service in the Family, Juvenile, Probate/ Mental Health, and Lower Court Appeal Departments. Her service has included numerous CLE, CoJET, and Brown Bag presentations for the Bench and Practitioners throughout the State of Arizona.
Sarah E Selzer Related Seminars and Products
was appointed to the bench in 2020 and presided over hospital-based civil mental health proceedings before rotating to Probate. She graduated from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and began her legal career by clerking for Judge Patricia K. Norris on the Arizona Court of Appeals. She subsequently practiced law in the private, government, and non-profit sectors: she practiced commercial litigation at Lewis and Roca, represented state licensing agencies at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, worked as a career law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judges David K. Duncan and Deborah M. Fine, and was Associate General Counsel for Chicanos Por La Causa.