Capital Area Private Defender Service
CAPDS is OFFERING NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCED TRAINING
Deadlines Are Rolling. Please APPLY AS often as interested.
Please select all trainings you would like to be considered for. Training support includes registration fees, hotel when required, and airfare if necessary. Scholarships do not include all expenses such as food and incidentals.
Current opportunities include:
Reid Interviewing
Reid interviewing is used by law enforcement to interview suspects. http://www.reid.com/training_programs/r_training.html
NACDL: Drug and DWI in Las Vegas, NV
For the third year, NACDL will jointly hold its two highest [NCDD_logo] attended programs, during the same dates, at the same location. NACDL & NCDD's 20th Annual "DWI Means Defend With Ingenuity®" and... NACDL's 9th Annual "Defending the Modern Drug Case" Seminars will be held on September 22-24, 2016 at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV.
If you are serious about being an effective DUI or Drug defense advocate, or if you’re considering adding DUIs or Drug defenses to your firm’s portfolio, you need to know the latest scientific and legal strategies to optimize your success at trial. Join your nationwide colleagues in Las Vegas to learn from the best-of-the-best in both areas, and take advantage of the unique opportunity to network, mingle, and establish a reciprocal referral base with over 600 of your colleagues from around the country. There is no better opportunity to confer and learn from your peers! https://www.nacdl.org/LegalEducation.aspx?id=16284
CAIL: Establishing Innocence or Guilt (Post -Conviction) and Habeas in Plano, Texas
This annual program focuses on why wrongful convictions occur and how they can be prevented. http://www.cailaw.org/Criminal-Justice/Events/2016/annual-program-innocence.html
This program will focus attention on habeas issues, an area of criminal law practice that is too often not well understood, by providing a view into habeas law and practice from both the prosecution and defense perspectives. It will be useful both for habeas practitioners and their staff, and for trial lawyers and their staff who want to steer clear of post-trial problems. http://www.cailaw.org/Criminal-Justice/Events/2016/habeas-issues.html
TCDLA: Cutting Edge Cross Examination in Dallas
Cross-examination is regarded as the "greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth." With this in mind, TCDLA brings you the Cross-Examination seminar with some of the foremost legal experts practicing in different areas of criminal law, sharing their tactics from their years of experience, their strategies, and topics to focus on for a successful cross-examination of different witnesses for different types of criminal cases. These attorneys have been recognized as some of the best lawyers in Texas. If you are serious about winning your case in trial, then your attendance at this seminar is a must for trial lawyers of any skill level. Some of the most useful topics are going to be covered, and the insight and the "nuts and bolts" of conducting effective cross-examination will be covered in each topic. http://www.tcdla.com/EventDetail?EventKey=A090816C
Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming
September 7, 2016 - September 30, 2016. Trial skills are only part of being a force in the courtroom. The trial lawyers’ power originates from within. Knowledge of oneself gives the lawyer the capability to know others and to connect with each person in the courtroom including the witnesses, the judge and the jurors. The power of TLC’s methods come alive through creative, spontaneous, outside-the-box innovations that capture juries and move them to justice. This three-week college is led by a team of TLC-trained and experienced trial lawyers, behavioral experts and communication experts, with at least a 7:1 student-faculty ratio each week.
Come join us. Learn how to win your cases with TLC’s methods. Meet new trial lawyers who will become life-long friends. Become reacquainted with the man or woman you were before you started law school – before the system wore you away. Connect with a tribe of trial lawyers who want nothing more than to win justice for those who are lost, forgotten, injured and damned.
http://www.triallawyerscollege.org/Courses.aspx
TCDLA: Roundtop VI - Advanced Skills Training
October 5, 2016 - October 8, 2016. This intensive four-day course is designed to improve counsel’s communication with members of the jury. Josh Karton will teach. It involves methods and techniques that have developed over the last 35 years. The training involves a component of self exploration that experience shows improves and enhances the communication process. Thousand have benefited from this training over the years. **Attorneys may be required to prepay and be reimbursed for this event. http://www.tcdla.com/iMIS/Events/Event_Display.aspx?WebsiteKey=c8dd4525-29ae-437f-b2e1-7e6eed2575b5&EventKey=A100516