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Burke, Bridgit M.
Assistant Clinical Professor and Director, Civil Rights & Disabilities Law Clinic
Phone: 518-445-3233
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B.S., Southampton College, Long Island University
J.D., Albany Law School
Joined Albany Law School in 1996. Previously, staff attorney with Chemung County (N.Y.) Legal Services, representing indigent people, and associate attorney with Levine Weissman in Manhattan, focusing on family law.
Bridgit M. Burke has been at the Civil Rights & Disabilities Law Clinic since 1994. The Clinic has a two-fold mission to provide legal advocacy, information, referrals and advocacy training to individuals with developmental disabilities and to enhance the legal education of law students. In her role Prof. Burke has supervised law student's representation of clients, presented on numerous disability related legal topics and provided direct representation on matters pertaining to free appropriate public education, employment, housing, public benefits, privacy, accessibility, family law and health law.
Prof. Burke has conducted continuing legal education programs for lawyers representing children in Supplemental Security Income proceedings. She in conjunction with other advocates at CRDLP developed a Professional Development Module for the New York State Education Department titled: Preparation of Educational Interpreters: Legal Guidelines to Special Education. She regularly conducts workshops to parents and professionals on legal topics. She has contracted with the New York State Education Department to develop training materials of Impartial Hearing Officers for Special Education Hearings. She has also contracted with Rockefeller College to develop and provide training sessions to Disability Analysis.
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