{"id":3659,"date":"2017-05-19T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T21:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T18:27:15","slug":"justice-resource-center-hosts-annual-youth-law-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/2017\/05\/19\/justice-resource-center-hosts-annual-youth-law-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Resource Center hosts annual Youth Law Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>James B. Kobak, chair of the NYCLA Justice Center, gives opening remarks at the start of the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Resource Center, in collaboration with the New York County Lawyers Association, hosted the annual Youth Law Conference on April 28th, 2017. Eighty-two\u00a0students\u00a0from 5 high schools attended workshops on various topics, from Art Provenance to Personal Injury, each facilitated by an expert attorney in their field.<\/p>\n<p>NYCLA president Carol Sigmund and keynote speaker Columbia professor Christopher Riano gave inspiring speeches that resonated with the students. &#8220;It was Carol Sigmund&#8217;s energy that encouraged me to pursue a law-related career&#8221; wrote one student. Another wrote &#8220;I enjoyed Professor Riano&#8217;s speech because it taught me a lot of life lessons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James B. Kobak, chair of the NYCLA Justice Center, gives opening remarks at the start of the conference. &nbsp; The Justice Resource Center, in collaboration with the New York County Lawyers Association, hosted the annual Youth Law Conference on April 28th, 2017. Eighty-two\u00a0students\u00a0from 5 high schools attended workshops on various topics, from Art Provenance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/2017\/05\/19\/justice-resource-center-hosts-annual-youth-law-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Justice Resource Center hosts annual Youth Law Conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}