Justia Connect Webinars The Animal in the Room: Assistance Animals in the Workplace and in Housing

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Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton Hamilton Law & Mediation

The Animal in the Room Assistance Animals in the Workplace and in Housing

Premieres October 27, 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT

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The Animal in the Room: Assistance Animals in the Workplace and in Housing

Service animals, assistance animals, and emotional support animals each arise under a different legal framework, and the employer or housing provider that applies the wrong one is exposed regardless of the answer it reaches. This course aims to help attorneys:

Distinguish the standards governing service animals under ADA Titles I, II, and III, assistance animals under the Fair Housing Act, and emotional support animals under state human rights statutes.
Identify the scope and limits of permissible inquiry and documentation requests by an employer or housing provider, including the treatment of online certification.
Conduct and document a compliant interactive process, including recognizing when undue hardship or direct threat is properly invoked and what record each requires.
Apply facilitated dialogue to competing accommodation requests and to voluntary pet-friendly workplace policies that create disability-law exposure they were never designed to carry.

Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes

When: Premieres in 47 days | October 27, 2026 11:00 AM PT

Speaker

Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton Attorney Mediator
Hamilton Law & Mediation

Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton is an attorney mediator and conflict coach with significant animal law experience including civil & criminal litigation, who now focuses on resolving conflicts between people over animals using mediation, collaborative processes, conscious conversations, restorative process and integrative law techniques. Debra handles matters including contract issues, divorce, breeder/owner/handler disagreements, veterinary malpractice, disability, service and emotional support animals and criminal/civil disputes involving animals. She is the pioneer in applying alternative dispute resolution and restorative process to conflicts involving animals. She is an internationally recognized speaker, coach, mentor, and teacher on these topics. Read More ›

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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Alabama CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.00 General

Alaska CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 General

California CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Recognition and Elimination of Bias

Hawaii CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 General

Illinois CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 General

Missouri CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.20 General

Nevada CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.00 General

New Jersey CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.20 Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.00 General

Ohio CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.00 General

Pennsylvania CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure

Texas CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.00 General

Vermont CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 General

West Virginia CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual)

Credits: 1.20 General

This presentation is approved for one hour of General CLE credit in Alabama, one hour of General CLE credit in Alaska, one hour of Recognition and Elimination of Bias CLE credit in California, one hour of General CLE credit in Hawaii, one hour of General CLE credit in Illinois, one hour of General CLE credit in Missouri, one hour of General CLE credit in Nevada, one hour of General CLE credit in North Carolina, one hour of General CLE credit in Ohio, one hour of Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure CLE credit in Pennsylvania, one hour of General CLE credit in Vermont, and one hour of General CLE credit in West Virginia. This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.20 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 1.20 qualify as total hours of credit for Ethics/Professionalism, including 1.20 hours in Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.00 credit hours.

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