The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has named a University of Georgia law professor to be her adviser on children affected by armed conflict.

Diane Marie Amann will advise the office of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on policies, training and awareness, according to the university. She will also represent the office at speaking engagements.

Amann teaches public international law, international criminal law and the laws of war at the University of Georgia School of Law. She joined the UGA law school faculty in 2011 from the University of California, Davis, where she was a law professor and the founding director of the California International Law Center.

Amman’s research and writing focuses on the interaction of national, regional and international legal regimes in their efforts to combat atrocities and cross-border crime, according to the university.

Amann is one of three special advisers announced by Bensouda.

“I have no doubt their contributions to the work of the office and the fight to end impunity for the world’s worst crimes will be invaluable,” Bensouda said.

The advisers work on a pro-bono basis.

The International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, prosecutes individuals for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Our colleagues at The Blog of the Legal Times, and another legal blog, Law And More, have taken note of a Craigslist ad by a Stratford, Conn., law firm that will allow newly minted lawyers, including those who have not yet passed their state bar exams, to shadow their attorneys – for a fee.

Baby lawyers would pay a monthly fee to the firm for the privilege of  “watching the day to day practice of law” and observing legal proceedings.

Noted the Legal Times blog: “it is like ‘Take Your Child to Work Day,’ but if your child paid you.  Actually, it is more like ‘Take Someone Else’s Child to Work Day,’ and the child’s parents pay you since the child/lawyer is unemployed.”

Not to mention that there is no admission fee for court hearings.

Atlanta attorney Joe Whitley, a former U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and Macon and  former general counsel of the U.S. Homeland Security Department., is co-chairing a Health Care Fraud Institute  on Dec. 13 for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education at the State Bar of Georgia.

Whitley, who chairs Greenberg Traurig’s white collar practice in Atlanta,  is co-chairing the day-long health fraud institute with Paul Murphy, a former U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Georgia who is now a partner at King & Spalding.

Topics will include the future of federal and state health care fraud initiatives, recent developments under the federal False Claims Act (also informally known as the whistleblower statute), the government’s increasing focus on quality of care and medical necessity, contractor audits, and the conduct of in-house counsel and corporate executive with health care providers.

Speakers include federal prosecutors from the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia, including Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Berne and Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Chartash, chief of economic crimes, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Caldwell III, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Baker, deputy chief of the economic crimes section, all of  the Northern District of Georgia. James Durham, assistant U.S. attorney of the Southern District of Georgia and G.F. “Pete” Peterman, assistant U.S. attorney of the Middle District of Georgia will also speak.

Among the former federal prosecutors speaking are Joseph Burby IV of Bryan Cave, King & Spalding partner Catherine O’Neil, Craig Gillen of Gillen, Withers & Lake and Richard Deane of Jones Day, former U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of Georgia.

Other speakers and panelists include Jay Mitchell, executive vice president and general counsel of Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, Stephen Petrovich, senior vice president and general counsel of Ardent Health Services in Nashville, and a number of attorneys from firms in Atlanta and Washington.

The luncheon speaker will be Edward Tarver, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.

The seminar is worth 6.5 CLE hours, including one ethics hour and 4 trial practice hours. For more information, or to register online, go to http://www.iclega.org/schedule.html