Agenda

Hidden Forms of Domestic Violence

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Check-In 

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. Welcome and Featured Speaker: The Economic Impact of Domestic Violence 

Abi Adams, Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University  

Professor Adams will open the symposium by examining the economic dimensions of domestic violence and how financial control, coercion and instability impacts survivors in family law matters. 

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Panel 1: Financial Abuse 

Panelists will discuss how financial abuse may appear in intimate partner relationships and family law cases, including patterns of control, barriers to independence, and issues practitioners should consider when representing clients. 

  • Aziza Khatoon, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Chicago 

  • Bruce Richman, Senior Managing Director, Corporate Valuation Advisors, Inc. 

  • Lauren Ellbogen, Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Chicago 

Moderator: Mallory Morgan, Supervisory Attorney, Legal Aid Chicago 

11:45 – 12:15 p.m. Lunch (Provided by Soberlink) 

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Panel 2: Technology-Facilitated Abuse 

This panel will explore how technology can be used to monitor, harass, control and/or intimidate a partner, and how family law practitioners can recognize and respond to these issues in their cases. 

  • Chloe Mullins, Director of Family Law, Ascend Justice 

  • Dominique Ward, Domestic Violence Survivor  

  • Megan Goldish, Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County 

Moderator: Lindsay Nathan, Legal Access Solutions Manager, Illinois Legal Aid Online  

1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Break 

1:45 – 3:00 p.m. Panel 3: Traumatic Brain Injury 

This panel will examine traumatic brain injury in the context of domestic violence, including how it affects survivors, client communication, evidence and court proceedings. 

  • Lester Finkle, Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County 

  • Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, PhD, LCSW, Associate Professor, DePaul University  

  • Dorothy Kozlowski Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, DePaul University 

  • April Flores-Brayton, MBA, CDVP, WINGS Program 

Moderator:  Alexandra Greenberg, Davis Friedman 

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Panel 4: Judicial Perspectives on Hidden Domestic Violence 

Judges will discuss what they see in the courtroom and how practitioners can more effectively identify, present and address hidden forms of domestic violence in family law cases. 

  • Judith C. Rice, Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Division, Circuit Court of Cook County 

  • Regina A. Scannicchio, Presiding Judge of the Domestic Relations Division, Circuit Court of Cook County  

  • Geri Pinzur Rosenberg, Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County    

Moderators: Sarah Hawkins, Assistant Public Guardian, Cook County Office of the Public Guardian 

Jason Pica, Associate, Dussias Wittenberg Koenigsberger LLP 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception (Provided by OurFamiliyWizard)