An ISBA Law Ed seminar next month on “The Secret World of Human Trafficking” will be presented by the Committee on Women and the Law with co-sponsorships by two other committees and three sections.

The seminar will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, in the ISBA Chicago Regional Office. (5.5 accredited MCLE hours)

Co-sponsors are the Committees on Minority and Women Participation and on Delivery of Legal Services, and the International and Immigration Law, Human Rights and Child Law Sections.

A blue-ribbon faculty includes four speakers from Washington, D.C. – two attorneys, a special agent of the FBI and a representative of the Department of Justice.

Program coordinators are Annemarie E. Kill of Avery, Camerlingo & Kill, Chicago, a member of the Committee on Women and the Law, and Yolaine Dauphin of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, Chicago, who serves on the Committee on Minority and Women Participation.

Moderators are Women and the Law Committee members Mary F. Petruchius of Schmack & Petruchius, Sycamore, and E. Nicole “Nikki” Carrion of Thomas, Mottaz & Eastman, Alton, who also serves on the Committee on Delivery of Legal Services.

After opening remarks at 9 a.m., the program will proceed as follows.

9:10 a.m. – Overview of Human Trafficking by Katherine D. Kaufka, supervising attorney and legal coordinator of the Counter-Trafficking Services Program of the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago.

10 a.m. – International Trafficking of Women, with Martina E. Vandenberg of Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., former researcher for the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch in Europe and the Israel Women's Network in Jerusalem.

11:10 a.m. – International Trafficking of Children, with Sharon Cohn, senior vice president of interventions for the International Justice Mission in Washington, D.C., and director of its operations in Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia.

12 noon – Luncheon break.

1 p.m. – Federal Initiatives, Policies and Prosecution of Human Trafficking, a panel discussion of the work of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division's Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Department of Justice.

Speakers are Janice Mertz, supervisory special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Michael Yoon, of the Justice Department, both of Washington, D.C. A graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Yoon was an assistant Cook County state's attorney for eight years.

3:10 p.m. – State Initiatives, Policies and Prosecution of Human Trafficking, with Elizabeth P. Yore, general counsel of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Chicago, and former assistant Illinois attorney general.

3:55 p.m. – A Non-Governmental Re---sponse to Human Trafficking: The Salvation Army PROMISE Initiative. Jennifer Mitchell of the Salvation Army in Chicago will discuss the pilot program, Partnership to Rescue Our Minors from Sexual Exploitation.

4:40 p.m. – Concluding comments.